The world knows that Japan once carried out the inhumane Nanjing in Nanjing. The massacre, however, most people do not know that the Japanese committed another crime on the other side of the East China Sea, the Ryukyu Massacre, which was no less tragic than that of Nanjing. massacre.
Ryukyu is the Ryukyu Islands on the east side of the East China Sea today, and now most of the people think that it is Japan, but in fact, this is exactly what the Japanese people want, because in fact, if you strictly follow the country. In terms of international law and the treaties of some related countries, the current Ryukyu Islands cannot be regarded as Japanese territory, and even according to the Ryukyu Treaty signed by the United States and Japan in 1970, which was signed by the United States and Japan without permission from other countries, Japan only has administration over the Ryukyu Islands. Jurisdiction does not have sovereignty, so Ryukyu actually has the right to be its own master, but it is currently under the control of Japan, and Japan has been publicizing that Ryukyu belongs to it, for fear that other countries will not agree.
From the root point of view, the indigenous people on the Ryukyu Islands are still Chinese, most of them are fishermen in the coastal areas of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai in ancient China, these people have been fishing at sea for a living all year round, after discovering the Ryukyu Islands, they migrated to settle down on them, and took root on the ground, so during the Ming Dynasty, the Ryukyu Islands were China's vassal states, and the Ming Emperor also crowned the Ryukyu King, so China was also the suzerainty of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
However, in 1609, the military power of the Tokugawa clan on the large islands such as Honshu in Japan began to rise, so they began to covet and invade the Ryukyu Islands, and then continued to invade and occupy this area for a long time, killing many Ryukyuan people in the process, until March 30, 1879 (the eighth day of the first month of March in the fifth year of Guangxu), which was destroyed by Japan, so this time is also a history of blood and tears of the Ryukyu people, and then the Japanese set up Okinawa Prefecture here to enslave the Ryukyu people, and also called it "Ryukyu".
After Japan first provoked World War II, it began to invade other countries continuously, and by the end of World War II in 1945, Japan was gradually defeated, and the Potsdam Proclamation demanded that it had to accept the return of all occupied territories.
At that time, Japan was very afraid that after the defeat of the Ryukyuans, they would attack each other, because they had committed too many crimes in Ryukyu, and they were afraid of the independence of the Ryukyuans, because then there would be another country against Japan, because the Ryukyuans were likely to settle their history with them, so the Japanese government. The prefectural government issued the "Jade Crushing Order" to ask the local garrison to kill the Ryukyuan people, and its specific implementers were none other than the notorious commander of the Ryukyu garrison, Ujima Man, who had carried out the "Three Lights Policy" in China and carried out massacres in Nanjing, and his deputy Chang Yong, who were like Nanjing. As in the case of the massacre, the same trick was repeated again in the Ryukyu Islands, and a frenzied massacre of the Ryukyu people began, and another terrible massacre began.
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Probably big in Nanjing. In terms of slaughtering methods, it can be said that the Ryukyu Massacre is even more heinous, because at this time the Japanese army is insufficient, Andashima Man and Nagamasa and others found that such a massacre was too slow after sending troops to slaughter for a period of time, so they used a convenient method, that is, to force the Ryukyuan people to kill their own people, that is, to let their relatives kill each other, neighbors kill each other, friends kill each other.
Historical records record that the Ryukyu Massacre was very tragic, the Ryukyu people had no guns, they could only use kitchen knives and axes to end the lives of their relatives under the threat of the Japanese army, they used the name of the Japanese Emperor and the nationalism of the Great Japanese Empire to paralyze the Ryukyu people, so that their fathers killed their children, their husbands killed their wives, and their sons killed their mothers... Then they commit suicide...
It is said that in order to kill faster, the Japanese army also forced the Ryukyu people to "group self-determination" in villages, and some of the means were to force the Ryukyuans to jump off a cliff to commit suicide, or to drive them into caves, and provide gasoline or grenades and other weapons to make them commit suicide in groups...
The massacre killed more than 260,000 people in Ryukyu, and the scale of the massacre was second only to that of Nanjing. slaughter.
The Ryukyu Massacre and the Nanjing Massacre. The massacre also has a profound anti-human nature, because after World War II, Ryukyu was not rationally handled, so Ryukyu was not separated from Japan, because under the leadership of the Japanese, so the Ryukyu Massacre was fully covered up by the Japanese people, and this incident also seemed to become a matter in Japan, so the Ryukyu Massacre did not attract the world's attention, even the video materials were mostly destroyed, only some writers and historians such as Japan's Kenzaburo Oe described it according to a small number of historical materials. This also led to the massacre of the Ryukyu people not receiving the sympathy they deserved, and even when the Tokyo Trial held Japan accountable for the war, the horrific Ryukyu Massacre was largely ignored. It can be said that history owes Nanjing a fair deal, also owes Ryukyu a fair deal, and also owes Ryukyu a voice.