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Cash reward for men who poured pain on monument
By Wang Qingchu |
August 5, 2011, Friday
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The five Chinese men who splashed paint on a monument to Japanese settlers in a county in northeast China each received 2,000 yuan (US$311) cash reward from an activist who has campaigned for Japan's compensation for Chinese victims of World War II.
The five men splashed red paint on the monument in Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province on Wednesday because they considered these Japanese settlers were invaders.
They returned to Beijing yesterday and "would smash the monument again if it was not dismantled by the local government," Chen Fule, one of the five men, told the newspaper Beijing Times.
Tong Zeng, the activist who demanded compensation from Japan for Chinese victims, awarded 2,000 yuan to each person.
The monument has aroused outrage among Chinese netizens who accused the local government of using the monument to woo investment from Japan. The monument ignored the history and hurt the national dignity, they said.
Japan began to colonize Manchuria, today's Heilongjiang, in 1905. Wang Xiliang, a research fellow with the Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said the Japanese government had a plan to send 5 million settlers to northeast China over a period of 20 years.
The five men splashed red paint on the monument in Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province on Wednesday because they considered these Japanese settlers were invaders.
They returned to Beijing yesterday and "would smash the monument again if it was not dismantled by the local government," Chen Fule, one of the five men, told the newspaper Beijing Times.
Tong Zeng, the activist who demanded compensation from Japan for Chinese victims, awarded 2,000 yuan to each person.
The monument has aroused outrage among Chinese netizens who accused the local government of using the monument to woo investment from Japan. The monument ignored the history and hurt the national dignity, they said.
Japan began to colonize Manchuria, today's Heilongjiang, in 1905. Wang Xiliang, a research fellow with the Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said the Japanese government had a plan to send 5 million settlers to northeast China over a period of 20 years.
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