calendar>>October 2. 2009 Juche 98
Japan's "Punitive Operations" against Koreans under Fire
Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- The bloody "punitive operations" carried out by the Japanese imperialists in the year of Kyongsin (1920) was a product of their policy to exterminate the Korean nation.

On October 2, 1920, the Japanese imperialists cooked up the "Hunchun incident" in which they hurled mounted bandits into attacking their consulate and kicked up a wholesale whirlwind of suppression against Koreans in Northeast China under that pretext.

Huge armed forces including the troops which had been dispatched to Siberia, a regiment of the 19th division of the Japanese army in Korea and police corps in North and South Hamgyong provinces and heavy weapons were involved to perpetrate massacres of Koreans in Hunchun, Wangqing and Helong counties and other parts of Northeast China from early in October to the middle of the month.

Shouting "Kill all the Koreans", they gouged out their eyeballs, skinned them off, dismembered them to death and buried one group of dozens of people after another alive.

They did not hesitate to tear children off their parents before throwing them into burning houses and dismember to death the Koreans bound to ropes.

The Japanese imperialists' thrice-cursed atrocities resulted in killing at least 30,000 Koreans and destroying or reducing to ashes more than 6,000 dwelling houses.

Countless are the mass killings of Koreans committed by the Japanese imperialists.

The mass killings of Koreans perpetrated by them during the March First Popular Uprising in 1919, the June Tenth Independence Movement in 1926 and the great Kanto earthquake in 1923, etc. were intolerable international crimes against humanity.

All the mass killings of Koreans committed by them should be punished under international laws.

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