Anyone who sees an appeal that will have a boiling passion will immediately arouse the response of tens of thousands of netizens. Yes, our hero, it's time to go home and reunite! ! !
1.jpg (42.75 KB)
2009-3-24 22:56
The tomb of Wu Kun, the division commander of the 67th Division, is located in the center, which is the most intact tombstone.
3.jpg(46.43 KB)
2009-3-24 22:56
The tombstone reads: Tomb of Staff Sergeant Kong Zhangxian of the new 30th Division, which belongs to the new unit of China's Myanmar Expeditionary Force and should have been captured in the Indo-Myanmar battlefield.
2.jpg(5 1.87 KB)
2009-3-24 22:56
The remains of more than 600 China anti-Japanese soldiers remain in the barren hills of Papua New Guinea.
People's Daily Online, Beijing, March 24 According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qin Gang, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on the 24th that the government of China will solemnly commemorate the return of the remains of PNG anti-Japanese soldiers.
Answering a reporter's question at a regular press conference, Qin Gang said that the China government attaches great importance to the issue of the remains of anti-Japanese soldiers in Papua New Guinea, and will solemnly commemorate it, and is stepping up preparations in this regard.
At the end of last year, some netizens posted on the Internet that the remains of China's anti-Japanese war soldiers were found in Papua New Guinea, a Pacific island country. The relevant departments of China Municipal Government attach great importance to this, and are making efforts to understand and verify the relevant situation, and actively arrange foreign embassies to verify and find the whereabouts of the remains.
Media related articles
"Legal Weekly" and10,000 netizens launched the activity of "Receiving the Soul of the Anti-Japanese War to Return to China"
At the end of June, 2008, 5438+February, after a Beijing netizen posted a post entitled "No one cares about the remains of 800 heroes defending the Shanghai Fourth Line Warehouse", many netizens issued an appeal to take them home. Tian Jiyun and Yang, the survivors of the Battle of Four Stores, recalled their miserable life in the prison camp with tears in their eyes.
⊙ Legal Weekly reporter Jiang Wei Intern Liu Shuyin
On a barren slope near Rabur, the former capital of Papua New Guinea, a South Pacific island country, the remains of 800 heroes, the China-Myanmar Expeditionary Force and the New Fourth Army, were quietly buried. They were sticking to the Shanghai Fourth Line Warehouse at that time.
The unexpected discovery of an overseas Chinese has opened a tragic history that is little known.
"They are all heroes who shed their blood for the country and heroes of the Chinese nation. We should not forget them! " The appeal of netizen "Tianzhu Road" has been supported by the signatures of more than 10 million netizens. From now on, Legal Weekly, together with netizens at home and abroad, launched a campaign to "take the heroes of the Anti-Japanese War back to China".
An unexpected discovery by an overseas Chinese
At the end of June, 2008, 5438+February, Beijing netizen "Tianzhu Road" posted "No one cares about the remains of 800 heroes in the battle to defend Shanghai's fourth-line warehouse overseas" in a community, telling that there were more than 600 China soldiers' remains on a desolate hillside in Papua New Guinea, a distant South Pacific island country, including soldiers in the Battle of Songhu in June, 5438+0937.
This post immediately aroused the strong concern of many netizens.
"They are all heroes who shed their blood for the country and heroes of the Chinese nation. We should not forget them! " When the reporter of Legal Weekly contacted the netizen "Tianzhu Road", he suddenly felt a thrill.
Tianzhu Road is an employee of a company in Beijing. He told reporters that this tragic cemetery was accidentally discovered by an overseas Chinese in Papua New Guinea. After learning the news from foreign friends, he posted it on the Internet, hoping to attract more people's attention.
This cemetery is near rabaul, the former capital of Papua New Guinea. A former Australian pilot accidentally found several tombstones and cemeteries engraved with the military symbols of China and China in the dense forest during his mission. When a local overseas Chinese knew about it, he hired a jungle aborigine to lead the way. After some twists and turns, he found three tombstones of China soldiers on a barren slope. There are two recognizable inscriptions, namely, Captain Wu Kun of the 200th Regiment of the 67th Division of the former Army and Staff Sergeant Kong Zhangxian of the new 30th Division of the former Army. The other was badly damaged and illegible, but the time of death was 1945. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, they were sent to the local area by the Japanese army as laborers, and they died when they returned to China successfully.
The unexpected discovery of overseas Chinese opened a little-known history of the Anti-Japanese War.
During World War II, laborers became the naval and air bases of the Japanese army, and about 1600 China soldiers were sent to labor prisoner-of-war concentration camps as laborers. Excluding those who died on the way, 653 people died in the prisoner camp, leaving about 1 000 people, 1, who were repatriated by the US Navy in 946. The remains of more than 600 anti-Japanese heroes have fled overseas.
Eight hundred heroes, who stuck to the four-row warehouse, retreated into the Shanghai Concession and was placed under house arrest by the British army, becoming a "lone soldier". Later, when the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese army broke into the British Concession and became a prisoner of war. 1942, 50 officers and men of "eight hundred heroes" led by 2nd platoon leader Xue Rongxin (Sichuanese) were escorted to Rabur Island in the western Pacific Ocean, far from the motherland, and lived an inhuman life of hard labor.
Painful memories of survivors
According to Zhang, an overseas Chinese translator in the prison camp, before the surviving officers and men returned to China, they cooperated with the local overseas Chinese community to build a cemetery and buried the bodies of 259 officers and men. But after more than ten years, the cemetery was in disrepair and razed to the ground.
With the independence of Papua New Guinea, a large number of Chinese emigrated to Australia. Later, the urban area of Rabur was destroyed by volcanic eruption, and fewer overseas Chinese were buried here, even fewer anti-Japanese soldiers were known. The intact tombstones found this time belong to a small part of them.
Tian Jiyun, one of the "eight hundred heroes" born in Hubei Province, is a survivor of Rabur prison camp. According to his memory, some "eight hundred heroes" were dismantled after being sent to the island. Tian Jiyun's "China Military Work-study Team" has 160 people, including some prisoners of war of the New Fourth Army. Prisoners of war work 10 hours a day, live in caves and eat sweet potatoes. Without medical care, they died helplessly.
1In August, 945, they saw that the Japanese army was depressed and drunk all day, only to know that Japan had been defeated, and in turn arrested the Japanese soldiers who were guarding it as prisoners. After Japan's unconditional surrender, the warships belonging to the Australian Division 13, which took over Rabur, came. The prisoners of war on the island jumped into the sea to meet them, swam for nearly half a kilometer, climbed aboard and enjoyed the joy of victory with the allied soldiers on board.
But few prisoners of war survived. Two years later, there were only 38 people left in Tian Jiyun's labor force.
On March 1946, 18, only 34 strong men returned to Shanghai, 14 died in other places, and two others, one of whom fell ill after being beaten by the Japanese army, the other was insane and stayed in the local area for treatment, but did not go home.
/thread-4720- 1- 1 . html