Ke Weili observed a moment of silence to the unknown martyr. Zhejiang Public Security Courtesy photo
Hangzhou, 2 Oct (China News Network) -- During the National Day holiday, Liu Kai, a retired cadre from Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, plans to bring his family members to Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, to pay homage to his grandfather Liu Jinshan. Recently, with the help of the Zhejiang Public Security "Reunion Studio", Liu Kai finally found his grandfather who was separated from his family for 77 years, but his grandfather had already died on the anti-Japanese battlefield.
In August 1945, the Battle of Dongba, known as the "Last Battle of the Anti-Japanese War in Southern Jiangsu", was fought in Youzi Mountain, Gaochun District, Nanjing, and two soldiers of the New Fourth Army were killed. Due to the fierce fighting, the troops entrusted the local villagers with the burial of the martyrs.
Ke Weili asked local villagers in Nanjing about the tomb. Zhejiang Public Security Courtesy photo
In that year, the villagers put the remains of the martyrs into the high-grade coffins, and buried them with the highest etiquette of carrying the coffins by 8 people, and the sacrifices have been swept away endlessly over the years. The old man who participated in the incident recalled: "One martyr was about thirty years old, and a piece of moso bamboo board was placed in the coffin, which read, 'Shandong Liu Jinshan', and the other martyr was Chen Desheng (pronounced) from Sichuan."
In the following decades, Kong Xiangyang, a village doctor in Shuangyou Village, Gaochun District, Nanjing, guarded the tomb of the two martyrs for three generations. "The real name, place of origin and other information of the martyrs are not clear, and after moving the graves to the martyrs' cemetery, they are also marked with the tombs of the unknown martyrs, and for so many years everyone hopes to correct their names and find relatives, so that they will no longer sleep alone in a foreign land." Kong Xiangyang said.
In June this year, the Gaochun District Veterans Affairs Bureau sent an official letter to the Zhejiang Public Security Bureau, requesting technical support from the "Reunion Studio" to help find the names, places of origin and descendants of the two martyrs. The head of the studio is Ke Weili, deputy director of the Criminal Technology Office of the Luqiao Branch of the Taizhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, who was awarded the title of "Civil Servant Satisfied by the People" by the Party Central Committee and the State Council this year.
Ke Weili asked the Liu clan people about the situation. Zhejiang Public Security Courtesy photo
Due to the poor preservation conditions of the remains of the martyrs and the lack of DNA points, in order to determine whether they can help, the Zhejiang police organized experts to argue that they could accept it.
"We sent the samples of the remains to the Forensic Identification Center of the Taizhou Municipal Public Security Bureau for inspection and identification, successfully detected DNA data according to the predetermined plan, and compared with the public security DNA database, it was determined that the martyr's place of origin was the Liu family in Zaozhuang, Shandong, which was consistent with the clues provided by the villagers of Shuangyou Village, 'Liu Jinshan from Shandong.'" Ke Weili told reporters.
On September 7, Ke Weili went to Zhaizi Village, Yong'an Town, Shizhong District, Zaozhuang City, to investigate, checked the genealogy and collected blood samples of two Liu clansmen, and the final test results showed that the remains of the martyrs were of the same family as the Liu clan.
However, in the process of searching for the relatives of the martyrs, in addition to technical difficulties, there are also "interference items", that is, the three brothers of the Liu family have someone named Liu Jinshan in their families. In this regard, Ke Weili in-depth investigation learned that Liu Yuxi's second son, Liu Jinshan, migrated from Shandong to Nanjing to make a living.
Liu Jijun, a local villager, told Ke Weili: "Liu Jinshan, the second son of second grandfather Liu Yuxi, joined the Chinese Communist Party to fight devils, and later broke off contact, if Liu Jinshan is still alive, he should be 110 to 120 years old." "This is in line with the information provided by the villagers of Shuangyou Village.
Recently, the Zhejiang police determined that the unknown martyr "Liu Jinshan of Shandong" in Gaochun District, Nanjing City, was Liu Jinshan, the son of Liu Yuxi, who was born in Zhaizi Village, Yong'an Township, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province. This conclusion has been fed back to the Department of Veterans Affairs and has been preliminarily endorsed.
"The whole process of searching for the relatives of martyrs is no less than solving a difficult case, and the science and technology involved in this are like two sides of the same coin, making the past 'impossible' now become 'possible', and it can be said that the use of scientific and technological means to make up for historical regrets." Ke Weili said.
The continuous efforts of many people in the three provinces have finally given the martyrs a real name after 77 years of sacrifice, and also let the distant relatives have the sustenance of mourning. (End)
Source: China News Network