The "Kirishe Uprising" was an uprising set off by local Taiwanese to resist Japanese colonialism and brutal rule. Although there were only a few thousand large and small tribes participating in the Wushe Uprising, they dared to challenge the Japanese army. Finally, in the face of the threat of the Japanese army, they defended their dignity with death!
They proved that the Chinese believed that in the face of foreign invasion, Japan used poison gas bombs, cannons and other weapons to deal with the people with only rudimentary weapons in order to suppress the uprising, which further showed the brutality of Japanese rule in Taiwan!
Taiwan has been China's territory since ancient times, and the Qing Dynasty had to cede Taiwan to Japan due to its defeat in the war and the signing of the Treaty of Maguan, which humiliated the country. In Taiwan, Japan enslaved the indigenous people and violently submitted to the indigenous people who dared to resist Japanese policies. As Japan implemented the policy of "using the aborigines to control the babble" and let the indigenous people who had already surrendered help Japan to eliminate the unconverted indigenous people, Japan also let some of the indigenous people join the police force.
In addition, the abundant resources of the mountains of Taiwan have also attracted Japan. They exploited the mountains and forests unscrupulously and, under the threat of force, used indigenous peoples to assist them. The aborigines have been accustomed to a nomadic life for generations, and the Japanese have seriously squeezed their living space by exploitation, and the contradictions between the two sides are heating up.
In order to calm the anti-Japanese sentiment of the residents, it was decided that the local residents could intermarry with Japan. Japan pursues a "Peacemaker" policy. The Japanese treated them like barbarians, flirting with local women anytime and anywhere. All kinds of evil deeds make the local residents hate Japan to the bone!
Fast forward to 1930, in a village in Taiwan known as the Wushe, where the local Saidek tribe was wishing chief Mona Rudao's son a new marriage. While they were celebrating, the arrival of Japanese police officer Yamamae made the atmosphere extremely tense. Then there's the anger! Yamamachi's previous difficulties, coupled with the fact that he did not do less bad things in the Kirisame Society, everyone hated him. In front of helpless mountain, there are Japanese troops supporting it.
Offending these devils did not have a good ending, Mona Rudao had to ask his son to toast Yamamae, but Yamamae refused because Mona Rudao had cow's blood on his hands, and flipped the table on the spot. Yamamae will pay the price for this impulse, and Mona Ajay and Mona Mahonda beat Yamamae to death, and Yamamae fled.
Mona Rudo, knowing that he had caused trouble, had to bring a gift to apologize personally, but the Japanese did not buy it, and threatened that if the prisoners were not handed over, Sedek would be razed to the ground. Upon returning home, Mona Rudao recalled the various insults that Japan had inflicted on Sedek, and for the sake of the tribal people's safety, Mona Rudao decided to launch an uprising.
Led by Mona Rudo, a protest was launched on 27 October, with a sneak attack on the police station to snatch weapons and ammunition. Throughout the uprising, 134 Japanese were killed, and when the Japanese colonial rulers learned of the Kirisho uprising, they immediately sent troops from all over the country to suppress it.
The Japanese gassed Sydek, who suffered heavy casualties due to their defenselessness. The Sideks had no choice but to withdraw from the mountains and launched a guerrilla attack with the Japanese, half of the Japanese army was killed and wounded but could not do anything about guerrilla tactics, so they changed their strategy, hoping to use the abduction to appease, using their families to persuade, the Japanese army did not expect to please a boss, and the Japanese who were embarrassed and angry launched an attack on the mountain people.
The deranged Japanese used tear gas, gas bombs, and cannons against the mountain people. The people of the uprising suffered heavy casualties, most of them died at the hands of the Japanese, and the mountain people who survived were unable to resist, and the uprising failed. The number of Sideks is also 2100, and 900 people were killed this time, nearly half of the tribesmen were killed.
A Shoban Elementary School near Kirisha (Japan calls the local savages and educates them on daily chemicals. Learn Japanese), and when a school sports day is held, Japanese people from the police station come to watch it. They locked their weapons in the storage room, leaving only two people to guard. Sidek broke into the campus, killed the police in the custody room, seized the weapons, and killed another 18 policemen who were operating, only one of whom escaped.
The Kirisame Uprising broke out, and soon everyone knew about it, and they all admired Sedek's spirit of not being afraid of the Japanese army's force. Enraged, Japan gathered more than 20,000 people to massacre kirisame with a population of just 2,000. Mona Rudao's weapons were only a few rifles snatched from the enemy's hands, and the difference in strength was too great, mona Rudao knew that the enemy was not enough, and withdrew the team to the mountains, taking a long-term view.
Before leaving, the women, because of their limited mobility, did not want to be a liability and unanimously asked to stay. Amid the cry of others, the rebels left. In order not to be insulted by Japan, the women who remained behind hanged themselves after writing their suicide notes, and used their deaths to defend the dignity of the Sideks.
After arriving at the Fog Society, the Japanese army burned all the villages to the ground and then went into the mountains to encircle and suppress them. Japan was not familiar with the terrain on the mountain, could not find the enemy, and was embarrassed and angry, ignoring the provisions of the Geneva Conventions, threw poison gas bombs on the mountain. 500 Saidek residents resolutely chose to commit suicide in order not to fall into the hands of Japan when they ran out of ammunition.
Born as a master, dead as a ghost male
Choosing to hang himself in the Saidek Sacred Tree, the scene is daunting and tragic.
There is a "Praise and Righteousness Square" next to today's Wushe Highway, the plaque reads "Green Blood Heroic Wind", and there are two pairs of couplets on the pillar, which read:
Nine hundred people who resisted violence and annihilated the enemy heroically donated their lives to bury their blood, and praised the heroic souls of hundreds of millions of generations who were loyal and difficult.
"Chuyifang" later built a "Monument to the Martyrdom of the Wushe Uprising" to commemorate 400 martyrs.
In 1940, a skeleton was found on the mountain, and the skeleton was still holding a gun in his hand, and he was Mona Rudao. The Japanese brutally made the skeleton into a specimen. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, people found the remains of Mona Rudao and built a cemetery for him to show his remembrance.
More than ninety years have passed since the Wushe Uprising, but it will forever be recorded in the annals of Taiwan's War of Resistance.
The Wushe Uprising is the national dignity that the Saidek nation exchanged for its life, and this uprising is the largest of the indigenous people in Taiwan, which is not only an important part of the Taiwan people's anti-Japanese struggle, but also a part of the Chinese nation's resistance to foreign aggression that cannot be ignored and divided.
History has long shown that violence cannot solve any problem.