At the end of last month, a video document confirming the historical fact that the Japanese army massacred many Korean comfort women in Yunnan, China, in 1944 was made public for the first time in South Korea. Before that, there were only testimonies and news reports about the ma

At the end of last month, a video document confirming the historical fact that the Japanese army massacred many Korean comfort women in Yunnan, China, in 1944 was made public for the first time in South Korea. Before that, there were only testimonies and news reports about the massacre of comfort women by the Japanese army.

South Korea's KBS TV station and other reports said that it is speculated that this 19-second black-and-white video material was taken on September 15, 1944, in a place in Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China. The person who recorded this historical moment was Baldwin, a soldier from the 164th Photographic Company of the U.S. Signal Corps, which is part of the Sino-U.S. coalition.

It is reported that this information has been kept at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the United States for more than 70 years. The image was made public for the first time at the "International Telephone Conference on Comfort Women of China, Japan, South Korea, and Japan" co-organized by Seoul City and Seoul National University's Human Rights Center on the 27th.

The corpses of comfort women were discarded after they were massacred.

The video shows the scene where the corpses of comfort women were randomly discarded after they were massacred by the Japanese army. The scene also showed Chinese soldiers coming to bury the body. Reports pointed out that at that time, there were 70 to 80 Korean comfort women in the Japanese military positions in Songshan and Tengchong, Yunnan. 23 of them were rescued after the Chinese and American coalition forces repelled the Japanese army, and most of the rest were massacred before the Japanese army was defeated.

Screenshots of video materials

At the meeting that day, 14 documents and 2 photos of the massacre of comfort women by the Chinese and American coalition forces were also released. One of the report documents clearly records, "On the night of (September) 13th, the Japanese army shot and killed 30 Korean women."

CCTV once filmed a documentary exposing the atrocities of the Japanese army's "comfort women"

was released at the end of last year. Following the big-screen release of " Twenty-Two " in August 2017, there is another domestic documentary exposing the atrocities of the Japanese military's "comfort women" - "Revealing the Atrocities of the Japanese Army's "Comfort Women" System, 2017 It will be broadcast on CCTV on December 11, 2019.

It is understood that the documentary was jointly produced by Nanjing Radio and Television Station and the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders. It is divided into five episodes and will be broadcast on CCTV 4 International Channel at 8pm every night from December 11th to 15th. The " National Memory " column is broadcast to audiences at home and abroad.

December 13, 2017 is the Fourth National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. Zhang Jianning, the film’s chief director and director of the Special Topic Department of Nanjing Radio and Television Station: The reason why the documentary is scheduled to be broadcast during the above time period is mainly because the “comfort women” system was widely implemented during the Nanjing Massacre.

Zhang Jianning said that unlike previous documentaries of the same subject, this film starts from the "system" level and tries to confirm and expose from all angles and aspects that the "comfort women" in World War II were a brutal sexual slavery system established with the participation of the Japanese government. , exposing its atrocities and harm.

"Previous documentaries generally focused on individual victims and groups, capturing the fate and living conditions of "comfort women". Ours is at the national level." Zhang Jianning said.

It is understood that according to the order of broadcast, the themes of the five episodes of the film are "The Origin of Evil" (revealing the origin of the "comfort women" system), "Hell's Den" (focusing on exposing the comfort stations), and "The Pain Is Forever" (revealing the origins of the "comfort women" system). The fate of surviving "comfort women" who suffered atrocities), "Crying Blood in the South Seas" (revealing the atrocities of "comfort women" in Southeast Asia), "Cry for Justice" (revealing the survivors' struggle when the Japanese government did not acknowledge the atrocities).

Chief writer and director of the film, Ms. Wan from the Special Topic Department of Nanjing Radio and Television Station: The creative team interviewed "comfort women" victims and their lives in China, South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor and other countries. Family members; scholars and researchers from China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and other countries; and members of Congress from Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, the United States and other countries.

"Revealing the Atrocities of the Japanese "Comfort Women" System" was approved by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television's Major Theoretical Documentary Film and Television Film Creation Leading Group on September 30, 2015. Regrettably, from the establishment of the project to the imminent broadcast, 6 of the more than 20 surviving "comfort women" interviewed have passed away.