Massacre survivor dies at 81
25/5/2005 9:19
Mo Desheng, one of the few survivors of the Pingdingshan Massacre
committed by Japanese troops 73 years ago, died of illness at the age of 81 in
Fushun, northeastern Liaoning Province, early Monday.
Mo was one of the three
Pingdingshan Massacre survivors who had waged a marathon litigation since 1996,
asking for the Japanese government to apologize and compensate for the
crime.
On September 16, 1932, invading Japanese troops rounded up about 3,000
people, including the elderly, women and children, from Pingdingshan Village in
Fushun and shot them, accusing them of having cooperated with guerrillas
fighting against Japanese aggression.
The Japanese soldiers then burned the
bodies and buried them by triggering a landslide with a dynamite explosion. Few
escaped. The Japanese invaders also burned down 800 houses in the village. When
the massacre took place, Mo was just eight years old. Five of Mo's family were
killed in the incident, including his parents. Mo suffered stab wounds in the
neck.
Mo, together with two other survivors from the massacre, Yang Baoshan
and Fang Surong, kept filing lawsuits at Japanese courts starting in
1996.
Xinhua news
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