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Massacre in Manila: Japanese army slaughters 100,000 people in just one month (children are not spared)

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The fascist acts of the Japanese army were not only carried out in China, South Korea and other neighboring countries, in fact, in December 1941, when the US army withdrew from manila, the capital of the Philippines, the Japanese army washed here in blood, which formed one of the most shocking massacres in human history, the Manila Massacre.

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Massacre in Manila: Japanese army slaughters 100,000 people in just one month (children are not spared)

In December 1941, after the withdrawal of American troops from Manila, Manila was officially set as an "undefended city", and after less than a month, the Japanese army occupied Manila, but then at the end of the Pacific War II, the Japanese army was defeated in the South Pacific Islands, and finally Yamashita Bongwen ordered the Japanese army in Manila to retreat, but the navy refused to obey, and the American army began a strong attack during this period, and captured Manila on February 23. But it was surprisingly found that the death toll in Manila, the capital of the Philippines at the time, reached 100,000, and it is said that the Japanese army brutally slaughtered them on the way to retreat.

Massacre in Manila: Japanese army slaughters 100,000 people in just one month (children are not spared)

And counting in this horrific massacre, almost an average of three thousand people were killed every day, and the largest massacre was that three thousand refugees were burned on the south bank of the Bashi River, and the Japanese army almost raped and slaughtered any civilian, the men were killed by machine guns, and the women were raped and shot, and even because there were too many civilians, they also directly threw grenades in the crowd and let the bomb explode, which can almost be described as corpses strewn across the field. As a result, the number of japanese war deaths at that time was almost one-tenth of the number of civilian deaths.

Massacre in Manila: Japanese army slaughters 100,000 people in just one month (children are not spared)

And in this tragedy comparable to the Nanjing Massacre, there is more than one such tragic incident, the most shocking thing is that the Japanese army killed 994 Filipino children at the University of São Paulo, when the Japanese army in order to gather so many children, so they placed a lot of snacks in the university cafeteria, and when the children were all sitting down and eating sweetly, the five chandeliers hanging above their heads all exploded, the entire roof was overturned, and the nine hundred children were almost all blown up with blood and flesh. Even those who escaped death would die under the machine guns of the Japanese army.

Massacre in Manila: Japanese army slaughters 100,000 people in just one month (children are not spared)

In fact, from the beginning of the Pingdingshan Massacre in 1932, the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" in the mouth of the Japanese army was also linked to massacres, and the Manila Massacre was a very cruel epitome of it, almost can be said to be in modern history can not find a more cruel and anti-human army than the fascist Japanese army, massacres have almost become their norm, the Manila massacre alone lasted for a month.

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