In 1937, Xia Shuqin's home was shot at by 30 Japanese soldiers, and all her relatives were killed, but she survived at the age of 8 and lived with eight corpses for 14 days. Sixty-nine years later, she went to court to seek justice for the 300,000 compatriots killed in Nanjing.
Xia Shuqin was born in Nanjing in 1929 in a family of 9 people, including her grandparents, parents, three older sisters, little sister and Xia Shuqin herself.
Xia Shuqin's family lived happily ever after in the alleys of Nanjing until December 15, 1937, when a catastrophe destroyed their family.
30 Japanese soldiers broke into Xia Shuqin's house, and the owner of the house asked them about their intentions, but the Japanese soldiers ignored them and shot and killed the owner. Xia Shuqin's father rushed to hear the gunshots and knelt on the ground and begged the Japanese soldiers to spare him and his family, but the Japanese soldiers shot him and killed him anyway. Subsequently, the Japanese army entered the inner room and ravaged Xia Shuqin's two sisters. The sisters desperately resisted, but were powerless.
In order to protect the sisters, grandma and grandpa picked up crutches and wanted to fight devils, but they were shot dead by the Japanese soldiers at the door. After that, a Japanese devil performed ** on the sisters, and inserted their lower bodies with grandma and grandpa's crutches, and the two were tortured to death.
The frenzied Japanese soldier snatched the one-year-old baby, and the baby's cry immediately resounded throughout the room. They jumped on the table, held the baby aloft, and then brutally threw the baby to the ground ......The one-year-old stopped crying forever!
Subsequently, they stripped Xia Mu of her clothes and insulted her in turn. In the end, they also brutally killed her with a knife. Before, Xia Shuqin's mother told them to hide in the quilt, and Xia Shuqin followed her mother's instructions. However, she was still discovered by the Japanese and stabbed three times. Luckily, the quilt kept these attacks at bay. And Xia Shuqin's four-year-old sister hid in the closet and was not found.
The Japanese army left after snatching valuable items from Xia Shuqin's house, and Xia Shuqin and her sister dared to cry later. They found their mother dead, and the house was full of corpses, a total of 8 bodies.
Xia Shuqin and her sister lived in the house for 14 days, drinking cold water and eating pots to survive. After being adopted by her uncle, Xia Shuqin's life became difficult, and it was not until after the founding of New China that it gradually improved.
In 1998, two Japanese writers made false statements in their public publications, claiming that Xia Shuqin was a false witness who fabricated testimony in order to glorify the war.
Xia Shuqin was very angry when she heard these remarks, she recalled the tragic death of her mother and sister, and could not bear this kind of groundless slander. At the age of 70, she decided to take up the law ** to defend her reputation, and at the same time fight to defend the dignity of all Chinese.
In 2006, after a long process of 6 years, Xia Shuqin's lawsuit finally came to an end. The court ruled that the two Japanese writers must take back and destroy the published books, and at the same time publish an apology statement in China's mainstream newspapers and magazines such as Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, and pay Xia Shuqin 1.6 million yuan in spiritual solace. Hearing the news, Xia Shuqin felt relieved. "Today, I won the case, but that's just the beginning," she said. I will continue to hold all the Japanese aggressors accountable and seek justice for my landlord, grandmother, 7 relatives and 300,000 brothers and sisters in Nanjing! ”
History cannot be tampered with or forgotten, and we must remember the suffering of our ancestors and strive to strengthen ourselves to avoid history repeating itself. We have no right to forgive our ancestors, and only through self-improvement can we truly commemorate them.