Miao Shijin, male, born in 1927, is a native of Miaojia Village, De'an County Horticultural Farm (formerly known as Turtle Society), farming, and primary school education.
Oral date: 3 November 2006
Oral location: Miaojia Village, a gardening field
Interviewers: Tu Dongzhi, Zhu Zhongliang, Cai Jinlin, Zhang Lihui.
The Japanese came to us in August of the 27th year, when our people heard that the Japanese were coming, they were so frightened that they hid everywhere, and at that time we all ran to Yongxiu Jiangjiayuan. The Japanese arrived at night, with only four soldiers coming at first, but then many more followed.
I remember that the most important characteristic of Japanese people is that they don't like to talk (probably because no one else understands them) and only know how to roar. If a dog barks in the village, they shoot it. Once, the Japanese drove all the people who were caught together, and then searched for money one by one, and they let those who were not searched stand on one side, and let those who were searched stand on the other side. I was also in the crowd at the time, because I was young, and when the Japanese soldiers were not looking, I hid in the crowd that had been searched, and I also had some money with me at that time.
On this occasion, four or five women in the crowd were pulled out by the Japanese. I remember that at that time, the Japanese would pull one for each person, pick out the young and beautiful ones, and when they were done, they would let them all go. Two of them refused, and the Japanese killed them with bayonets.
I remember one time, we fled from Yongxiu to Muhuanyuan, and saw a lot of people's corpses along the way, including a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, covered in blood, and heard the adults say that she was killed by the Japanese.
Later, we hid on the hill with a wooden ring and set up four or five thatched huts. It was still discovered by the Japanese, so they went to the mountains to look for it, and when they didn't find it, they set fire to it, and burned 4 of them at once, as if only one shed was not burned. I heard that in Bayi Village, the Japanese drove the people in the village together, swept them with machine guns, and killed them with bayonets, killing dozens of them at that time. Among them, there were also people from my village who were also fleeing and hiding in their village. These are things that I know very well, we are all neighbors.
In the horticultural field, the Japanese caught Chinese soldiers everywhere, and the whole village was caught by the Japanese, but in fact they were ordinary people. The Japanese locked them all in a house with a machine gun at the door, and then set fire to the house until they burned them all alive. On that occasion, a man in my village was stabbed by the Japanese on the way to escape, and he fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. It seems that several of them were burned to death in Bayi Village. I heard that in Yujia, the Japanese drove the people to the edge of the pond, killed them with bayonets, beat them with guns, and the corpses fell into the pond and floated all over the water.
Chinese killed by devils in the street.
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