Massacre proof sent to Nanjing (China Dailly) Updated: 2004-08-20 01:50
New evidence of the Japanese atrocities committed in the Nanjing Massacre
have been uncovered in diaries written by a military doctor in 1937 and
1938.
The diaries and some letters were sent anonymously to Zhu
Chengshan, head of the Nanjing Massacre museum, who opened the package on
Wednesday afternoon.
The diaries were written by Jiang Gonggu, a Chinese military doctor from
December 23, 1937 till February 27, 1938. Jiang was a member of the Chinese army
in Nanjing.
A
museum official in Nanjing Thursday shows diaries written by a
military doctor and letters written by senior officials of the then-ruling
Kuomintang on the Japanese atrocities. They were all sent to the museum by
an anonymous donor on Wednesday.
[newsphoto] | When the city was invaded by
Japanese soldiers, he hid in the safety zone and eventually fled in February
1938.
The diaries record the atrocities he witnessed.
The package also contained letters written by 11 senior officials of the
Kuomintang government, including Zhang Zhizhong, Chen Bulei, Bai Chongxi and
Jiang Dingwen. The letters were written after reading the diaries.
"It is a record of the blood, it is the reality, and it shows the Japanese
invaders' cruelty and violence..." says one of Zhang's letters.
Zhang Yiping, secretary of the Collectors' Association of East China's
Jiangsu Province, has seen the letters and is treating them as genuine. "It is
the first time the museum has had such materials of the massacre written by
Kuomintang officials themselves," said Zhu.
The donor of the letters and diaries remains a mystery. Zhu said the meseum
would do its best find out who it was that sent them.
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