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The last survivor: Ex-railway worker recalls Japanese invasion of Hainan

CGTN, 10 Feb 2021
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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-09/Last-survivor-Ex-railway-worker-recalls-Japanese-invasion-of-Hainan-XK5GmwktJ6/index.html

"The Japanese (army) killed laborers who didn't do their jobs right. Some died of disease, and others died of starvation. The bones were high," recalled 96-year-old Zhang Renchang, who is the last surviving laborer from the Japanese army invasion of Hainan Province.

Wearing a green jacket and a red hat, Zhang looked calm. But she got emotional talking about the Japanese army. Her voice began to tremble and she started speaking in the local dialect instead of Mandarin.

Zhang lives with her daughter in Basuo Town, Dongfang City. The city is nestled on the western coast of south China's Hainan Island, a quiet testament of the Japanese army's plunder and the persecution of laborers during the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

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