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68: 482:, the radio message postponing the rebellion was not received due to equipment failure. As a result, several hundred Japanese attackers, armed mostly with shovels and clubs, and a small number of swords or rifles, were decimated by machine gun fire from ambush positions, both inside and outside the CCP headquarters. The rebellion on the airfield was thwarted before it started. Out of three rebel attacks, only the attack aimed to take control of 503: 238: 138: 27: 312:) was reported 13 August 1945, when a train, filled with civilian Japanese refugees, was stopped at an elevated track near the tunnel entrance, and the Japanese women were gang-raped by the locals after the train security guards were killed. The train was unintentionally stopped by Chinese guerrilla forces attempting to intercept the preceding evacuation train of the family of the last Chinese Emperor ( 567:
About 3,000 Japanese men and women were put into old warehouses, packed 5 persons per square metre (one person per 2.2 sq ft). Many became hysterical due to the lack of oxygen, but anyone climbing through a window was shot. Soon, the flooring had turned into a pool of blood, and people died on their
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After 5 days of confinement, the survivors were let to walk out, only to be beaten to death by the Ri Koko detachment guards. The CCP also carried out rapid interrogations and subsequent torture. The people deemed related to the rebellion were shot. Also, many of the Japanese women were raped
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was received by the CCP office in Tonghua, regarding the planned rebellion in a refugee camp. A wave of arrests, interrogation with torture, and executions followed immediately. In particular, all of the Japanese arrested on 10 January were immediately shot. The Ri Koko detachment acted upon this
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The gang rapes reportedly happened even in broad daylight on the streets, and at least one Soviet officer was shot dead while trying to stop his fellow soldiers. Japanese refugees responded mainly by shaving the women's heads bald, applying dirt and grease to their skin, and wearing storage bags
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In early November 1945, all property owned by those of Japanese ancestry was confiscated and all Japanese males aged 15 to 60 were forced to join labor teams. From 17 November, CCP forces were arbitrarily raiding Japanese homes in search of weapons and drafting those they came across into labor
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Tensions heightened in late August 1945 when groups of Soviet soldiers repeatedly raided Tonghua Girl's High School, raping, abducting, and killing both students and teachers. At least one shootout with a teacher possessing a concealed pistol was also reported, leading to additional raids.
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By the morning of 3 February 1946, all Japanese males aged 16 or older and suspected females, frequently wearing only pajamas, were chained and forced to march 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) in −20 °C (−4 °F) weather. Any who fell from exhaustion or wounds were shot dead.
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On 22 September 1945, the CCP-affiliated forces evicted Kuomintang forces from Tonghua. By 2 November, the CCP positions in the city had consolidated enough that a red flag was raised over the city headquarters.
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By 10 January, the Tonghua branch of the "Japanese People's Liberation Army" was disbanded with 140 Japanese arrested, amid persistent rumors concerning a wide scale rebellion by the Kwantung Army.
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From 10 December, some of the former Japanese soldiers were recruited into the CCP's newly created aircraft squadron to help the Chinese master the captured Japanese airplanes. It was the part of
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At midnight on 3 February, the Japanese rebellion started according to the agreement with the Kuomintang. Although it was initially planned to be assisted by Kuomintang forces in
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On 21 January, further arrests and detentions of Japanese occurred in the aftermath of the murders of a high-ranking Japanese civilian leaders.
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Kuomintang captured Tonghua in late 1946 and held a memorial service to the victims of the rebellion. The city was retaken by the CCP in 1947.
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In September 1946, a general withdrawal of the Soviet occupation forces was in progress. As the CCP sought to control the region to undermine
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The Public Security building was soon surrounded by CCP reinforcements and shelled. The Japanese rebels, lacking heavy weapons, surrendered.
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feet – the corpses could not fall because of extreme crowding. About 2,000 civilians who did not fit into the warehouses were shot nearby.
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by March 1946. One of the organizations helping the CCP to dismantle existing civilian infrastructure (both the residual Japanese and
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teams, regardless of gender or age. Forced eviction of Japanese people from their dwellings also began.
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On 23 December, an event publicizing collaboration between CCP and the Japanese was held.
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positions, mass killings were underway, with approximately 70,000 people killed across
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detachment, staffed mostly by ethnic Koreans, many of whom were former members of the
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still being in control of the city with the help of the former personnel of
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of rebelling Japanese soldiers that occurred on 3 February 1946 in southern
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Participation of the male teachers in the rapes was also reported.
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refugee camp, later falling victim to the Tonghua incident.
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apartments in the Public Security building succeeded.
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