More than eighty years have passed since the Nanjing Massacre, but let alone more than eighty years, even if it is hundreds of years and thousands of years, we Chinese will never forget this pain, the 300,000 Chinese compatriots who were slaughtered in Nanjing will not be, and we who were born in New China and grew up under the red flag will not. We can never forgive the sins of the Japanese for our ancestors, and in fact, the Japanese officer Matsui Ishigen, who caused the Nanjing Massacre in 1948, was indeed punished by him.
Victory in the War of Resistance Matsui Ishigen was brought to justice
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, we once saw his own handwritten record in Matsui Ishigen's diary, which clearly recorded the scene of the fiasco of the entire city of Nanjing at that time, and the corpses were all over the field and blood flowed, but from his records we did not see a trace of remorse, and he even thought it was very "funny".
From this diary, we can fully see that Matsui Ishigen regarded human life as a plaything, and he had long since lost the emotions he should have as a person. This executioner, whose hands were stained with the blood of Chinese, and the main criminal who held the lives of 300,000 compatriots in Nanjing, was finally brought to justice by our army after the victory of the War of Resistance.
The mainland is not as dehumanizing as the Japanese, we have always followed international law to give preferential treatment to prisoners of war, we love peace and will never take the initiative to provoke war, so the main way we treat prisoners of war is to conduct ideological education, hoping that they will repent, at least they must realize the crimes they committed during the Sino-Japanese War, but Matsui Ishigen even refused to admit the sins he had committed.
Refusal to acknowledge Matsui Ishigen's defense
During the interrogation, he first said that he did not know that his men had burned and looted the city of Nanjing, he only captured Nanjing, but never ordered the massacre of the people of Nanjing, and later the soldiers maimed the Chinese people without their knowledge. What was it, at that time, almost everyone in Nanjing City had been exterminated by them, and the city of Nanjing was full of Chinese corpses, how could he not know, so our army found his diary.
Faced with the white paper and black characters in front of him, Matsui Ishigen still refused to repent, and he continued to find excuses for himself, saying that he was seriously ill when the Japanese army slaughtered Chinese people and was powerless to stop it. However, it only takes one sentence to stop the evil deeds of his subordinates, and it is not to ask him to go to the battlefield to fight, what can be done with illness.
In the face of Chinese interrogation, Matsui Ishigen has always been pulling things around, that is, he refuses to admit his crime, and even if the final defense is indefensible, he has never realized the evil of his behavior.
The final execution Chinese will never forgive Matsui Ishigen
Matsui Ishigen never thought that Japan's invasion of China was wrong, that he was wrong to massacre the people of Nanjing, and that he even absurdly believed that Japan was just playing a small joke when it hit China. Then his joke is really "small", for his joke, to let countless Chinese people die, to let the Chinese mountains and rivers shatter the cuckoo cry blood.
China has always been peace-loving, and even now the mainland rarely carries out executions, but Matsui Ishigen's sins are too deep, even if he dies thousands of times, he cannot make up for the pain in Chinese's heart.
In the final sentencing stage, Matsui Ishigen was sentenced to hanging by the mainland on 55 counts, including "joint conspiracy", "carrying out the crime of aggression against China", and "ordering the Nanjing Massacre", and the so-called hanging of prisoners on ropes with wooden planks and other supports under their feet was finally removed, and the prisoners would eventually suffocate and die because they were hung in the air with ropes.
The news of Matsui Ishigen's sentence to hanging soon spread out, some people think that the heavens have eyes, and finally let this demon be punished; some people think that Matsui Ishigen's life is not enough for the civilians to be indignant, and the hanging is simply cheapening him.
But in any case, people are anxiously waiting for the day of execution, and no one does not want to see how this Japanese man with 300,000 lives in his hands finally left this world.
Execution The last twelve minutes and thirty seconds
On the day of the execution, Matsui Ishigen was taken out along with seven other Class-A Japanese war criminals, all wearing black hoods, of which the thin and diminutive Matsui Ishigen was particularly conspicuous.
Even in the final stages, even when he was immediately facing hanging, Matsui Ishigen still refused to admit his crime, and in the end, he led the seven Class A war criminals who went to the execution ground with him and shouted three times in the direction of the emperor.
When death comes, there is no repentance, and the executioner does not hesitate. With the order of the judge, the executioner removed the wooden plank at the foot of Matsui Ishigen, and Matsui Ishigen was suspended in the air, perhaps because the heavens did not want him to die so painfully, and when the plank was removed, he did not die directly, but struggled in the air for a full 12 minutes and 30 seconds before he completely swallowed.
During these 12 minutes and 30 seconds, Matsui Ishigen's struggle became weaker and weaker, and we could not see his expression, but the suffocation should be painful no matter how it was said. Whether he regretted it in those 12 minutes and 30 seconds we don't know, but in any case, he finally paid the price for his crime.