Gegenmiao massacre

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The Gegenmiao massacre (Chinese: 葛根廟屠殺; pinyin: Gégēn miào túshā; Wade–Giles: Ko2-ken1 miao4 tu2-sha1) or the Gegenmiao incident (Chinese: 葛根廟事件; pinyin: Gégēn miào shìjiàn; Wade–Giles: Ko2-ken1 miao4 shih4-chien4) was a war crime by the Red Army and a part of the local Chinese population against over half of a group of 1,800 Japanese women and children who had taken refuge in the lamasery Gegenmiao (Koken-miao) on August 14, 1945, during the Khingan–Mukden Operation in Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Soviet soldiers committed the massacre in Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (present day: Gegenmiao zhen; 葛根廟鎭), a town in the Horqin Right Front Banner of the Hinggan League of Inner Mongolia. The Red Army shot refugees, ran them over with tanks or trucks, and bayoneted them after they raised a white flag. After two hours, Red Army soldiers had murdered well over one thousand Japanese refugees, mostly women and children. Angry Chinese civilians chased a group of Japanese refugees into a river, where many...

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