On November 1, 2004, a white-haired old man came to the black with the support of a middle-aged woman
Bayan County, Harbin City, Longjiang Province
Xinglong Town. Those who don't speak or ask, no one knows that they are not Chinese, but Japanese. The old man's name is Kimura, and the middle-aged woman's name is Yuko Hainan. The two traveled far and wide, from Japan to China's Heilongjiang Province, not to play, but to unveil a 59-year history.
When the Japanese came to China to uncover the history of 59 years ago, it is not necessary to guess that it is related to the Japanese invasion of China that year. The relationship between Kimura and Yuko Hainan is not what everyone thinks, they are not a father-daughter or grandfather-grandson relationship, but a relationship between the director and the audience, and they are also two Japanese people with kindness and conscience. The protagonist of this trip is Kimura, who came to Tohoku to talk about the unconditional surrender of Japan in 1945: In August 1945, when the news of Japan's surrender came out, Kimura, who was affiliated with the Japanese Kwantung Army, received a secret order to secretly bury a large amount of ammunition in the ground within a few days, and the news could not be leaked.
After 59 years, Kimura returned to the bomb burial ground to atone for his sins and apologize and make up for his fellow Japanese. In the face of the reporter's interview, the old man Kimura said heavily with guilt on his face:
"Hiding poison bombs is a nightmare of my life."
"Poison bombs" are chemical weapons, inhumane weapons that the Japanese army used on a large scale.
In 1944, during the puppet Manchurian period in the northeast, about 500 meters on the east side of the railway station in Xinglong Town, the Japanese army invading China set up and built an ammunition depot, which stored a large number of weapons and ammunition. The local people called the ammunition depot "East Yard". The place where the ammunition depot was built was seized by the Invading Japanese Army, who arbitrarily and unreasonably occupied the land in the areas of the former Siping Mountain, the rear Siping Mountain, the Waist Siping Mountain, the Mahe Yantun, the Wang Qingshan Tun, and the Xiaoyaoguotun tun on the east side of the railway, without giving any compensation, resulting in the forced displacement of the peasants. The peasants had no livelihood to support themselves, no houses to sleep in, and the rest of their lives did not know where to go.
To repair the ammunition depot, the Japanese army invading China did not use its own soldiers, but forcibly recruited more than 150 laborers from Ning'an, Jixi and other places, directly cut off a road, and built 130 semi-basement ammunition depots. Ammunition depots of this scale are large in the northeast. There is a barbed wire fence around the ammunition depot, and outsiders are not allowed to come near it. Once approached, they were beaten or shot. The ammunition depots are brick walls, topped with a layer of tin and painted with black paint. The specifications of the ammunition depot are consistent, numbered, have an area the size of three rooms, and are very strictly managed.
In 1945, before the Kwantung Army retreated, a staggering amount and variety of ammunition were secretly buried in the 20 square kilometers of land near the town of Xinglong. Kimura, a 77-year-old Japanese veteran, said he had been involved in the burying operation that year. At that time, hundreds of people were involved in the burial of ammunition, and the operation was carried out in groups of 4. Each ammunition burial point has a space of about 70 cubic meters, and 6 ammunition boxes can be stacked at a height. A considerable part of the ammunition burial sites are gas and tear gas bombs belonging to the ranks of chemical weapons. It is reported that this kind of gas bomb, as long as people and livestock suck a little, will cause internal organs to rot, even if it can not be touched.
These gas bombs have caused great harm and great distress to the local people. Because these ammunition are buried in secret, it is difficult to find them without careful identification, and if something suddenly detonates one day, tragedy will happen in an instant, and it will not be able to stop it. And this tragedy has already happened somewhat. In Xinglong Town and nearby Dexiang Township, there were two large tracts of land that had been lost in the nearly two decades after Japan's defeat and surrender, and there was no grass, no grain, and dozens of innocent Chinese who lost their lives or were disabled.
The reporter once interviewed four temples in Chunrong Village, Dexiang Township, and Sun Xiwen, an old man who was disabled by the Japanese army's ammunition at the age of 6 and was 62 years old at the time. In 1947, 6-year-old Sun Xiwen was playing in a tunzi, picked up something that looked "fun" (it was a shell fuse afterwards), and when he took it home to play, the fuse suddenly exploded. Since then, Sun Xiwen has lost his right hand, left eye, and left arm tendons, and since then, his whole body has been itching and aching, and his body has blistered and pus flowed. I have traveled to many places, seen a lot of doctors, and can't find out what the problem is, and it has not been cured so far.
There was also a villager in the village who picked up a "poison gas bomb" with a height of 80 centimeters and a diameter of 40 centimeters, with a pointed tip and full of "yellow water" inside. At that time, the young man did not understand things, did not know what it was, so he picked up and walked home, accidentally swung out the "yellow water" in the jar, and got a body. Subsequently, his whole body began to rot, all kinds of internal and external medicines were useless, and finally he was pointed out by an old man in the village, saying that he would be fine with a yellow mud with soil paste. There was no way, I had to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, I didn't expect to do it, and the rotten place on the body gradually got better.
Sun Xiwen recalled that when the Soviet Red Army was there, it concentrated on destroying the ammunition left by the Japanese army once. In the 1950s, the state destroyed it again in the vicinity. In the second national destruction, the destroyed ammunition was pulled out every day with a large cart and a truck, and it was destroyed for nearly two months. Even so, no one could guarantee that the Japanese ammunition would be destroyed and left behind.
In front of the camera, the old man of Kimura mentioned more than once that he was a witness to the historical guilt of Xinglong Town. His acquaintance with Hainan Yuko stemmed from a documentary. Yuko Hainan is a female director who has produced a documentary about the Chinese of the Japanese army's ammunition residues, "From the Land of Bitter Tears". The production of this documentary was not a whim, but from the tears of a Harbin girl. In the summer of 2003, Hainan Youzi traveled to China and met a 27-year-old girl, Liu Min, in Harbin.
Hainan Yuzi said that Liu Min is beautiful, but she can hardly see the smile of her peers on her face. Liu Min's father lost his limbs in 1995 because of a bomb left by the Japanese army. After 18 days of suffering, my father died. But a large debt is still in place for his father's medical treatment. It is a matter of course for the Father to pay the debt of the Son. That year, 19-year-old Liu Min began to work and never rested for 8 years.
Liu Min's story and tears deeply shocked Hainan Yuko as a Japanese. Moreover, Hainan Youzi knew that in the summer of 2002, there was also a serious incident of poison gas bombs in Qiqihar. Yuko Hainan, who has a strong sense of justice, decided to make a film about the buried ammunition in the northeast for the Japanese. During the production, to learn more about the incident, Hainan Yuko was shocked again, and the actual tragic situation was far beyond her imagination. She thought it would be enough to photograph one or two, and in the end she met 60 victims with various physical disabilities.
Who would have thought that in peacetime there are also people who have been killed by chemical weapons and whose futures have been lost. Yuko Hainan is both sad and determined: "I must show this film to the Japanese, especially for Japanese youth." She also told reporters: "My father once told me a lot about the crimes of Japanese kidnapping laborers and Japanese soldiers in the colonies in the past. His father, who grew up during the war years, also suffered a lot as a child, and he wanted to tell the next generation the truth. When I made this film, it was not that I was against our nation, but that I was against war. ”
This story is like a domino: Liu Min's tears shocked Hainan Tomoko, and Hainan Tomoko's documentary awakened Kimura's conscience. Therefore, Kimura, whose conscience was deeply condemned, returned to the black land of northeast China, and in order not to let more Chinese suffer from poison bombs, decided to come to China to reveal the secrets buried in his heart for 59 years. The old man in Kimura walked slowly and firmly into the government building in Xinglong Town, Bayan County, on crutches. From his own memory, Kimura painted one
"Location map of the ammunition depot in Xinglong Town, Kwantung Army"
。
The old man in Kimura dragged his old and sick body to visit the bomb burial ground of that year. However, due to the long age and the passage of time, the landscape of Xinglong Town is now very different from the landscape of that year, and Kimura had no choice but to give up. The old man in Kimura handed over the map he had drawn to the local government and begged the government to organize experts to survey, excavate and destroy it. For 3 days, the old man in Kimura kept looking for the old people in various villages, thinking of confirming the garrison and the location of the bomb, and visiting and apologizing to the survivors who had been injured by the ammunition left by the Japanese army.
The elder Kimura also said that there were three wells near the Japanese garrison, two of which were dropped with conventional weapons and one with poison gas bombs. As for which well was dropped with poison gas bombs, I am still looking for it, and I do not know whether it has been found. After Kimura returned to Kyushu, Japan, Chinese journalists contacted him by transoceanic telephone. On the phone, the old man Kimura's dull voice was full of remorse and guilt: "Hiding a poison bomb is a nightmare of my life." The terrible experience of nearly 60 years ago, and the tragic situation of the victims I saw in Xinglong Town the other day, made it difficult for me to sleep. ”
The Bayan County CPC Committee and the county government attach great importance to the "Hidden Map" drawn by the elderly Kimura, hold many meetings, formulate a "work plan for doing a good job in disposing of the abandoned shells of the Japanese army invading China," and set up a special investigation team for this purpose. Before leaving, the elderly Kimura declared to a law firm in Heilongjiang that he was willing to stand up and testify on the spot in several cases of injuries caused by chemical weapons left behind by the Japanese army. It has been learned that Kimura was the only witness who took the initiative to be a party involved in the case and publicly testified that the Japanese army invaded China was buried with chemical weapons in the northeast.
The Japanese invasion of China from September 18, 1931 to September 2, 1945, has always been a scar in the hearts of Chinese that is difficult to heal. As the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre put it:
"I'm 91 years old now, and I don't know how many times I'll be able to come to the family festival in the future. Hopefully, in my lifetime, the Japanese government will say 'I'm sorry' to me..."
The history of the War of Resistance Against Japan is heavy, and although it can be recorded on paper, it cannot be regarded as a simple record of information. It is the land where we live, the past that has really happened, and the life of thousands of Chinese. We are not qualified to forgive them on behalf of our forefathers. Forgetting is itself a form of forgiveness. The War of Resistance Against Japan deserves to be remembered by every Chinese, and it also needs to be remembered by every Chinese of our country.
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