On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, magnificent commemorative activities have been launched across the 9.6 million square kilometers of the motherland. People are warning themselves, warning future generations, and warning all peace-loving people: they must not forget the tragic past; forgetting the past means betrayal. This is a famous saying. Some people may gradually fade away after hearing this sentence, but he carved it into a concept and hung it in his heart, so he used his indomitable perseverance to trek through the arduous practice. ...

He is the protagonist of this article - Tan Jialin, chief physician of the Department of Surgery at Lin'an People's Hospital and member of the Peasants and Workers' Party.

Holding a family sword

On the evening of August 15, 2005, central and local TV stations held colorful commemorative programs, with climaxes coming one after another. On CCTV, Oriental Channel and many other programs, a parade on the streets of Tokyo appeared. It was a demonstration organized by the plaintiff support group of the "Changde and Zhejiang Japanese Invaders' Bacterial Warfare Litigation Case." Careful and knowledgeable people noticed that among the angry parade, there was a familiar figure, a Lin'an native, a burly old man over seventy years old. Oh, he is Tan Jialin. He was seen wearing a protest sign on his chest, waving a pennant, walking at the front of the team, and taking the lead in shouting slogans. He was not a victim of germ warfare, but he was the only witness; he did not have a deep-rooted family feud, but he had a deep-rooted national hatred; his family was not well off, but he raised his own funds and traveled to Japan three times. , in support of justice. With ironclad evidence, he finally made this transnational lawsuit, which lasted for 4 years and 6 months, known as the "Century Suit", force the defendant to admit for the first time in the first instance judgment after 27 court sessions. The Japanese army carried out germ warfare during the war of aggression against China.

The ironclad evidence of Japanese bacterial warfare held by Tan Jialin comes from his father, Tan Xuehua. During the Anti-Japanese War, Tan Xuehua, who was already a doctor of medicine, served as the vice president of the American-run Guangde Hospital in Changde, Hunan. In the early morning of November 4, 1941, a Japanese aircraft invaded the sky above Changde City. It flew low and circled for three weeks, dropped wheat, cotton wool, etc. and left. Dean Tan, who was highly vigilant, was the first to discover the Yersinia pestis bacillus in the afternoon using rudimentary equipment, cultured it immediately, and promptly proposed four prevention and control measures to the government authorities. A few days later, he personally received the first case of plague patient, performed an autopsy after his death, and wrote a paper and published it, leaving behind irrefutable evidence. At that time, he keenly foresaw that one day, the abominable crimes of the Japanese invaders who carried out brutal bacterial warfare would have to be brought to court. To this end, he preserved reliable first-hand evidence under very difficult circumstances. It is this evidence that Japanese writer Matsumura Takao said in the book "War and Epidemic-An Examination of the Crimes of Unit 731": "This is an astonishingly accurate judgment." In 1945, the US investigation team concluded: "This is what China has so far. The most powerful evidence of Japan’s use of bacterial weapons.”

The Japanese invaders carried out inhumane germ warfare in China. Changde, Ningbo, Yiwu, Quzhou, Jiangshan and other places in Zhejiang suffered the most. Only Changde was affected. As many as 7,643 people died. At that time, Tan Jialin was a six or seven-year-old boy living in the hospital with his father. He witnessed with his own eyes a large number of people killed and injured due to enemy bombing or plague. They were spread out on the outpatient hall and the large lawn behind the Guangde Hospital, crying to the sky and the ground. The tragic situation is still vivid in my mind. At the same time, his father's earnest teachings were also deeply imprinted in his mind: We must remember this period of history and cannot forget the heinous crimes committed by Japanese imperialism in China. We have an obligation and responsibility to stop the spread of bacteria. Victims of the war will receive fair compensation and history will be true. This is the motivation and motivation for Tan Jialin to go to Japan to support. He said: I must go to Japan to support, this is not my personal matter, this is to restore the dignity of a country and a nation, and to avenge the justice of the compatriots who died.

Crossing the East with Full of Justice

Tan Jialin went to Japan for the first time from August 23 to September 2, 2002. He carried sufficient evidence and accompanied the germ warfare lawsuit The Changde Support Group sent an envoy to Tokyo to participate in the first-instance judgment of the "Civil Claims Case Against Japan by Victims of the Bacteriological Warfare Unit 731 of the Invading Japanese Army".

August 27 is the day that 180 plaintiffs who were victims of China’s bacterial warfare have been waiting for five years. The Tokyo District Court will announce the results of the first instance on this day. In the morning, Tan Jialin accompanied the support group wearing a white ribbon that read "Peace not war" and "Strongly demands the Japanese government to apologize and compensate the Chinese victims". He held up his father's portrait and gave a demonstration speech in front of the court. At 1:40 pm, the court admitted for the first time that the Japanese army carried out germ warfare during the war of aggression against China. However, the 44-page judgment denied the plaintiff's claims in seven aspects, and the claim case was lost. So a large parade appeared on the streets of Tokyo. People held banners and slogans, chanting slogans such as "maintain peace, support justice, and give us justice" and "history cannot be tampered with, and blood debts must be repaid." Many righteous people in Japan Also joined the parade.

On August 28, a question and answer meeting was held in the House of Representatives Hall of the Japanese Parliament. When the plaintiffs and support groups asked Japan to release the "Imoto Diary" written by the World War II war criminal, the Japanese government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Defense Agency and Officials from the Ministry of Health and Welfare refused to release the information on the grounds that it involved copyright and privacy rights and could not be disclosed without consent. Tan Jialin said indignantly: Japan has always claimed that it is a civilized country and a country governed by the rule of law, but this judgment makes no sense. You keep saying that you want to protect the privacy rights and copyrights of war criminals, but you do not mention the right to survival. More than 30 million people Who should be held responsible for the death of innocent Chinese people? What kind of privacy rights do you have? There is no country in the world that kills people without compensating them, unless they are wild beasts. In the conference room, brothers Tan Jialin and his younger brother Tan Jiayao took the lead in singing "Defend the Yellow River": "The wind is roaring, the horses are roaring, the Yellow River is roaring..."

During more than a week of supporting Japan, Tan Jialin only sang "Defend the Yellow River" every day. After resting for two or three hours, sorting out materials, accepting interviews, contacting friends, and giving speeches, his voice became hoarse and he lost 26 pounds.

On July 19, the Tokyo High Court in Japan announced that the second trial of the lawsuit against Chinese victims of bacterial warfare committed by the Japanese invaders failed. After the verdict was announced, the plaintiffs and lawyers went to the court to demonstrate, expressing dissatisfaction with the verdict and planning to appeal to the Supreme Court of Japan.

Leave a suicide note and cross the ocean again

In mid-March 2004, Tan Jialin went to Japan for the second time to support. Before leaving, he used his spare time to ride a bicycle to Zhejiang Forestry College, Lin'an Middle School, Jincheng No. 2 Middle School and other schools, and collected banners signed by tens of thousands of students. Before leaving, he accepted an interview with Hangzhou TV Station. The reporter asked if he would go there next time? He answered: Yes, definitely! As long as you are still alive; as long as your family can still raise money. Before leaving, he considered himself an important witness and main speaker of the support group, which had caused great agitation among the Japanese right wing, and the Japanese media also paid special attention to him. His family felt uneasy about the attention he received, not to mention the high blood pressure that threatened him at any time in his seventies. To this end, he left a suicide note and prepared for the worst. Tan Jialin said: This is the most important thing in my life. I will never look back and die without regrets. That state of mind is all tragic and heroic: "The wind is rustling, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone."

March 18 was the first day of the event. It was raining lightly. Tan Jialin, wearing a poncho, stood in front of the Tokyo Judgment Office with his "comrades" and pulled up a banner signed by thousands of people brought from Lin'an. They chanted slogans, kept speaking about justice to passers-by, and strongly demanded that the court make a fair judgment. On March 19, a publicly funded support group went to climb Mount Fuji (he was the only one to participate in the support event in Japan at his own expense). He and five other people, including the secretary-general of the Hunan delegation and the head of the plaintiff group Wang Xuan, rushed to the House of Representatives to visit 10 Japanese congressmen. , publicize to them the details of the tragic deaths of the victims of germ warfare, and at the same time send a petition asking them to convey the wishes of the Chinese people to the Japanese government. On this day, the support group braved the rain to participate in the World Anti-War Parade in Tokyo, which boasted 200,000 people. Banners fluttered in the wind, slogans rose and fell, and the team marched in a majestic and majestic way. When the support group marched in front of the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, they encountered a confrontation from right-wing groups. Tan Jialin took the lead in singing the "March of the Volunteers." After a while, the right-wing forces retreated amidst the majestic singing.

Support the claim for three crossings of the ocean

The second trial of the Japanese invasion of China bacteriological warfare compensation lawsuit was decided on July 19, 2005. Tan Jialin arrived in Japan as scheduled for the third time with the support group. Before the trial, the Japanese side used a trick to temporarily abandon the large courtroom that could accommodate 400 people and use a small courtroom with 100 people in order to restrict the Chinese support group from watching and cheering.

The verdict was concluded in just a few minutes, and the compensation case was still lost. The support group immediately joined hands with Japanese friends to hold another passionate demonstration. Tan Jialin held up a newly created placard he brought from his hometown. On it was President Hu Jintao's inscription written in Chinese, Japanese and English: Remember history, never Don't forget the past, cherish peace and create a future. He and his companions chanted slogans such as "Oppose war, oppose the use of biological and chemical weapons, and safeguard world peace" and marched proudly among the angry crowd.

On the 20th, Tan Jialin and some members of the support group went to the House of Representatives again and questioned Japan face-to-face at the hearing: Japan is a country that flaunts democracy but is treacherous, unreasonable and without truth. So he sang "Song of Support for Justice", which he and his brother Tan Jiayao improvised in only 20 minutes when they went to Japan for the first time to support: In order to support and avenge, we traveled thousands of miles to Tokyo to protest against the Japanese invaders and launch a war. , a heinous crime of murder and arson. My blood is boiling, and my angry roar shakes Tokyo. Give me back my dignity, give me justice, and I will never agree until I win complete victory! The sonorous and tragic singing echoed in the Japanese House of Representatives for a long time.

Young man, listen to me

This year’s third trip to Japan to support Tan Jialin returned to Lin’an on the evening of July 24, and went to work the next day. He is a specialist who was reemployed by the hospital. By the time his patients filled the room and he saw the last patient, it was already past 12 o'clock. When he heard that "Metropolitan Express" asked him to give a report to the "Sunshine Students" at the summer camp, he took blood pressure lowering medicine without saying a word, took a few mouthfuls of rice, and hurried to Hangzhou with the reporter.

Tan Jialin never gives up giving speeches and publicity to students and all people. During his three trips to support Japan, he spoke in the waiting hall, on the plane, in the hotel where he stayed, and in front of the court. As long as he had the opportunity, he would reveal the tragic facts of germ warfare to people and denounce the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders against China. In the days before and after going to Japan, he visited 26 colleges and universities in Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui, and Jiangxi provinces and gave more than 30 lectures. When he was hired by five units including the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee as a member of the Youth Ideological, Moral and Legal Education Propaganda Team, he felt even more responsible Young students should never Don't forget the national humiliation, study hard, serve the motherland, and revitalize China. His wonderful speeches were warmly welcomed by young students every time.

When he gave a speech to the Sunshine students at the summer camp in front of the "Japan-China No More War" monument in Liulang Wenying Park in Hangzhou, he actually cried while speaking. He said that this was the first time in his life that A tearful cry. After three trips to Japan, he saw from many materials and historical facts that too many Chinese compatriots died during the Japanese invasion of China. He earnestly encouraged the students not to forget that nightmarish history, to study hard, to grow up healthily, and to make our motherland strong as soon as possible. He said that a nation without memory has no future. Tan Jialin's speech deeply inspired the students, and everyone was excited. Liu Can, a sunshine student from Jiangshan, said sincerely: Mr. Tan's words ignited the blood in my body.

Author's Notes

On the days commemorating the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, when we continue to review the historical plot, we are always moved by the bloody struggle of the Chinese sons and daughters, and by those who have fought successively. I was moved by the revolutionary martyrs, and I was also moved by Tan Jialin's character and behavior of remembering history and supporting justice.

However, when talking about this matter, Tan Jialin always said: What does it matter to me? I just did something that all Chinese people who can distinguish right from wrong and have a sense of justice can do it. To say that I am moved, I do live every day. While moved -

He said affectionately that he was moved by his father's deep patriotism and efforts to obtain and preserve evidence of bacteriological warfare; he was very grateful to those who actively assisted and participated in China's bacteriological warfare litigation activities Japanese friends were moved by the fact that some of them appealed everywhere for this, some wrote books to expose bacteriological warfare, and some lost their jobs because they told students about the historical facts of bacteriological warfare; I was moved by his heroic conduct at the farewell party; I was moved by Secretary Wang Jian and Mayor Fang Jiansheng toasting to him at a dinner and calling him an "anti-Japanese hero"; I was moved by the encouragement and support of the municipal government, Municipal People's Hospital and other relevant departments He was moved by the act of solidarity. In Japan, he met an international student named Qi Jingying who graduated from Renmin University of China. She worked for three years and wrote the book "Analysis of Speech on Japan". She has been accompanying and supporting the support group activities in Japan. He helped her He was moved by the deep patriotism; he was moved by the scene of taking care of their lives and providing convenience for them during the solidarity journey, and the scene where the crew lined up to see them off; he was moved by the sight of a little girl of about 10 years old walking in the parade on the streets of Japan. , he was moved by the scene of bursting into tears along the way; he was moved by the enthusiasm of thousands of students vying for signatures; he was moved by the "plateau child" Chen Jinshui and the manager of Ocean Company Chen Guangwei who sent money for their financial support; he was also moved by his own love My wife and family have always shown true love and silent cooperation and are moved...

What is moved? The dictionary says: Moved is the excitement of thoughts and feelings influenced by external things, causing sympathy or admiration. Yes, how important it is to be moved. Being moved is human nature, being moved is the enemy of numbness; being moved is close to justice, and being moved inspires people to forge ahead; being moved is the medicine for human beings to wake up, and being moved is the soul of the nation. We should be grateful that we still know how to be moved in our hearts. In the expectation of being moved in our lives, we should sincerely thank someone who has created a move for us - such as Tan Jialin.

Source: Lin'an News Network Editor: Lin'an News Network