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“Body Exploitation”---
the mines not the labors |
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From 1905-1945, the Japanese aggressors had dominated the Benxi Coal and
Iron Company for 40 years. They robbed the coals and irons in
Benxi madly, push the “Body Exploitation” policy – the mines
not the labors. On Apr 26th, 1942, a big gas blast took
placed in Benxi colliery. To reduce the mine loss, the Japanese
aggressors ordered to shut off the ground fan and blocked out the
mouth of the well, regardless of the fates of the Chinese labors
under the well. These decisions made numbers of miners who could
still be rescued stifled under the ground, and thousands of
Chinese miners died in the gas blast. The Japanese aggressors
ignoring the safe producing, merely robbing the mines, the gas
blast tragedies took placed now and then in each colliery. |
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To
conceal the crime, the Japanese aggressors built “the monument
of dead industrial soldiers” after the Benxi gas blast. 1,327
dead labors in the gas blast were recorded on the monument. But
the Japanese war criminal 古海忠之
fesses that this blast “took away over 1,800 miners’ lives”
in fact. Behind the monument is the “Ten Thousand Grave” with
piles of bones. |
Li Yongpu, a survivor
of the Benxi Colliery gas blast, pointed out: “On the second day
of the blast, the cleaning work was started, I attended the work
myself. It was really a terrible memory. We had carried out the
dead labors’ body by tramcars and bags for 7 to 8 days. At the
end, because of the hot weather, the dead labors’ bodies
perished and the mine was full of the bad smelly. Then the
Japanese soldiers ordered us pour alcohol into the mine, but even
that the bad smelly could not be eliminated. It was impossible to
continue the cleaning work. Many dead labors’ bodies were buried
under the mine.” He attested that more than 3,000 labors died in
the blast. |
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