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Japanese settlers monument smeared in angry protest
By Wang Qingchu |
August 4, 2011, Thursday
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Five Chinese men splashed red paint on a monument to Japanese settlers who died in Manchuria, today's Heilongjiang Province, during World War II because they considered these Japanese were invaders.
The five men from Beijing arrived in Fangzheng County in Heilongjiang yesterday, carrying two buckets of paint and a hammer. They managed to avoid security guards at the memorial site and splashed red paint over the monument, Beijing Times reported today.
Later they clashed with local police and were taken away for investigation, Chen Fule, one of the five, told the newspaper. Chen said the Japanese settlers were part of the intruders who should not be memorized.
After giving statements to police, they were released last night and took a train for Beijing.
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 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 from Beijing arrived in Fangzheng County in Heilongjiang yesterday, carrying two buckets of paint and a hammer. They managed to avoid security guards at the memorial site and splashed red paint over the monument, Beijing Times reported today.
Later they clashed with local police and were taken away for investigation, Chen Fule, one of the five, told the newspaper. Chen said the Japanese settlers were part of the intruders who should not be memorized.
After giving statements to police, they were released last night and took a train for Beijing.
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 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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