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In the 30s of the last century, Japan embarked on the road of militarism and launched a criminal war of aggression against China. Although the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has passed since we have more than 70 years, the wounds left by the Japanese invaders on the Chinese people still cannot be healed.
The Japanese army invading China held a military parade
Among the many victims of the war, the comfort women were undoubtedly the most painful, they were physically and mentally tortured by the inhumanity of the Japanese army, and even if the War of Resistance Against Japan was won, this humiliating experience left them with painful memories that will last a lifetime.
The story we want to tell today, the protagonist is a little girl with the pseudonym Xiaoying.
A life plundered by the Japanese army
In December 1937, Matsui Ishine, commander of Japan's Central China Dispatch Army, and Toshio Nagaya of the Sixth Division led their troops to attack Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties of China.
Due to the serious losses of the Japanese army in the Battle of Songhu, after occupying Nanjing, Matsui Shigen told his subordinates: "In order to obtain supplies, the troops should make use of local materials as much as possible." After receiving instructions from their superiors, the Japanese army carried out large-scale plunder and massacre in Nanjing, venting their inner animal desires.
Soldiers of the Japanese army who invaded China
During this cold winter, at least 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese army, more than 20,000 women were humiliated by the Japanese army, and one-third of Nanjing's urban area was turned into a sea of fire. This is the "Nanjing Massacre" that shocked China and abroad.
And our protagonist Xiaoying is an ordinary girl in a village near Nanjing. She was only 17 years old at the time of the Nanjing Massacre.
While cleaning up the urban area of Nanjing, the Japanese army also carried out large-scale sweeps of the surrounding villages and county towns, and if there were men who dared to resist, they were killed on the spot; If you encounter a beautiful woman, take it back to the Japanese barracks.
When the iron hooves of the Japanese army arrived, Xiaoying's parents wanted to cover Xiaoying's escape, but they were both shot and killed on the spot by the Japanese army. Looking at her parents who fell in a pool of blood, Xiaoying's mind was blank, and her body was constantly shaking with fear.
The Japanese carried out a sweep
When the Japanese officer saw Xiaoying's beautiful appearance, he showed an ugly smile and chattered with the Japanese soldier next to him, and Xiaoying was tied up by the Japanese army and stuffed into a truck.
After getting into the car, Xiaoying saw that the car was full of young women like her, and some even held babies who were crying. The Japanese officers, led by an interpreter, told them that the truck would transport them to the camp.
After a bumpy road, Xiaoying and the other women were transported by the Japanese army to a building in the barracks, which was cold and damp, and filled with an eerie atmosphere. Looking at the nailed windows and the Japanese soldiers with live ammunition at the door, only 17-year-old Xiaoying has lost his mind and can only resign himself to fate.
Desperate women
Painful comfort women experience
In fact, the place where Xiaoying and other women were detained by the Japanese army is the most notorious "comfort house" of the Japanese army, which is the place where the Japanese army vents its animal desires.
According to the internal regulations of the Japanese army, every 100 grassroots soldiers can be assigned one comfort woman, every five lieutenant officers can be assigned one comfort woman, and junior officers can be assigned one comfort woman alone. For most comfort women, they faced the bestiality of hundreds of Japanese soldiers every day.
A comfort station in a Japanese military barracks
Soon, this dark experience befell Xiaoying. Two days after entering the comfort center, Xiaoying was taken by a Japanese soldier to a room with a chair for lying flat. The Japanese soldier whispered, pointing to the chair and asking Xiaoying to lie on it.
Xiaoying is a good family woman in the village, and she has not yet been married, how can she lie on a chair and make a shameful action? But seeing that Xiaoying was disobedient, the Japanese soldiers became furious, and immediately slapped Xiaoying in the face, causing her to see Venus.
In order to suffer less, Xiaoying could only drag her tired body to lie on the chair, when the bestial Japanese soldier laughed maniacally and pounced, tore her clothes, and insulted her.
Comfort chairs
However, this is only the beginning of Xiaoying's painful career. From this day on, Xiaoying had to bear the animal desires of dozens of Japanese soldiers every day, and her originally delicate body had become withered and numb.
Looking at the Japanese soldiers staring at him with disgusting smiles on their faces in the room, Xiaoying's heart was suddenly full of regret: if he died with his parents that day, it would be much better than he is now!
After day after day and year after year of inhuman torture, Xiaoying has changed from an originally beautiful girl to a walking dead with a dull expression.
Until one day in 1945, Xiaoying and the women in the comfort center suddenly found that the heavy door of the comfort center had been opened, and a group of Chinese soldiers rushed in, saying sadly in Chinese that the women could understand: "Sorry! Fellow citizens! We came late! ”
The Chinese army accepted the surrender of the Japanese army
Permanent damage
After 8 years of bloody fighting, the Japanese invaders finally came to a dead end, and they finally laid down their arms and admitted defeat. So far, the Chinese people won a great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
However, when the Chinese soldiers stormed the Japanese barracks, they saw the most evil place in the world - the Japanese comfort center. All the women here are numb and have lost their vitality as life.
Japanese military comfort center
However, for Xiaoying, the 8-year nightmare is finally over.
After registering her identity, Xiaoying obtained a ticket from the Chinese army to return to her hometown. However, when she returned to the village, it was already a place of ruins, and the war had destroyed this humble village into ruins. In desperation, Xiaoying, who lost her home, could only live on the streets and live a life of displacement.
A lonely comfort woman
In the comfort center that year, in order to prevent comfort women from spreading sexually transmitted diseases, Japanese military doctors specially injected them with a large dose of "arsenic 606" drug, but this agent has strong side effects and will cause permanent loss of fertility in women.
Therefore, even if she leaves that demon cave, Xiaoying will never be able to realize her wish to be a mother in this life, and she can only die alone.
A collection of comfort women victims
In fact, tragic cases like Xiaoying were almost countless in those days.
According to incomplete statistics, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, more than 200,000 Chinese women were forced by the Japanese army to become comfort women, and their lives were shrouded in darkness. What we can do as future generations is to never forget this infuriating history, so that it will never repeat itself.
Resources
[1] The real situation of the Japanese military comfort center: The comfort women were tortured into walking dead
[2] Exposing the ugly crimes of the Japanese army in the War of Resistance and looking at the suffering of comfort women is very bearable