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The author:(作者)aaapublished in(发表于) 2014/12/14 9:09:43 Survivors of the Nanjing massacre： 77 years still hate and fear
Establishment of first National Memorial Day for the Nanjing massacre, the spontaneity of these families differ with us, the pain of one or two families, but hundreds of thousands of people, an entire nation, there should be a ceremony to commemorate the moment. Well let later generations remember that period of history, which is our own history, if we Chinese people good remembrance and respect, others never will be.
--1937 year the Nanjing massacre survivor Ai Yiying
The character
Ai Yiying
86 years old, survivors of the Nanjing massacre.
Dialogue motivated
First National Memorial Day Eve, Japan "rally invited the Chinese war victims testimony would" invite, Ai Yiying on December 5 to 11th Japan, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, testimony of a survivor of the Nanjing massacre rallies.
During the Nanjing massacre, Ai Yiying's father, two uncles and a cousin were killed by the Japanese army. Mother to Ai Yiying siblings of production in which 3 people continue to flee for their lives, were forced to abandoned newborn baby girl.
The Japanese "hate and fear" for 77 years, Ai Yiying have in themselves the opportunity to Japan tells the truth about history than Japan goodwill released by private organizations, Ai Yiying's first National Memorial days come more expectations, "family history is time to celebrate. ”
Trip to Japan
For 77 years, and "hate and fear"
The Beijing News: first go to Japan?
Ai Yiying: well, going abroad for the first time, for the first time to Japan.
The Beijing News: going to Japan when I was like?
Ai Yiying: could you young people will feel that a woman who had never been abroad, was invited to Japan, and also don't pay anything, much good. But at the Nanjing massacre Memorial Hall informed me to go to Japan, my first reaction was "why should we go there, no you can't go", which is more instinctive resistance.
Nanjing massacre in the past 77 years, my dad and several relatives died in the Japanese (militarism) bayonet, MOM told me that Japanese people would hide, hide all those memories.
A: it is a long time, feeling in the past?
Ai Yiying: hate and fear that the feeling of fear is the same. In Japan the plane and pick out our Japanese people are very friendly, was bowed and shook hands, a Japanese guy dragging luggage forward, I stopped him and said no. In fact, they are trying to help, but my gut reaction is "Japanese must be robbed of something."
Japan the third day, my son said to buy a piece of SOAP. I waited for him to the hotel, the results didn't come back, I was very nervous, thinking that nothing has happened, I'll make him a few words when he came back, the son said he went out less than an hour, but I feel very, very long.
The Beijing News: apart from the people around him, you yourself?
Ai Yiying: in Osaka participate in finished rally, day told has many Nanjing massacre that years of experience, day night I on do nightmare has, dreamed wear yellow clothes of Japan soldiers cut I of arm, whole article arm are is blood, later on cry woke up has, woke up came of when was are is Khan, sustained has good long time only reaction came, war has past for decades years has.
To testify
More young people listened to me in a
The Beijing News: participate in a testimony meeting will also have more emotion?
Ai Yiying: first there was a little nervous. Then slowly enough, I have not read the book, sit there and didn't draft, told entirely from memory. Talk more nervous, and we are the victims, confidently, your Japanese (military) aggression against our, history of your official denials, that I put my set of facts out.
The Beijing News: Japan about how the scale of the Nanjing massacre witness rallies?
Ai Yiying: about baishilai people per game, is the last stop in Tokyo, there were 150 people, some Westerners were listening. Participants were mostly aged fifty or sixty people, young people, this I'm sorry.
A: why is it so bad?
Ai Yiying: Holocaust thing, that more young people should know. Youth is the future of the country, which China, Japan are the same. Which is why they (usurped) reasons for altering textbooks. I's great-grandson is 8 years old, my family's fourth generation, I often tell him a thing of the past.
People around me told me later, organizer of the rally include activities, a number of teachers, universities, elementary schools are so good. I hope the teacher teach me Japan's next generation.
Newspaper: what do you hope this tells you?
Ai Yiying: the rest of us (survivors) and less. Before we set off in Nanjing, Nanjing television station has sent us a purple flower brooch, the staff said, when Japan after the defeat, surrendering soldiers like Nanjing this small purple flowers, take their seeds back to Japan. Said to have Japan Nanjing this home is filled with small flowers.
Peers say, purple flowers symbolizing peace, I am an old lady not understand truth. But perhaps only if we really experienced war know how terrible war is, how precious peace is.
The Beijing News: peace premise.
Ai Yiying: peace to the premise that cannot deny history, so many cruel killings, hundreds of jibaiwan lives, those of us who were alive, how can you say that denying denied?
Memory
Dad said "you'll be home soon"
The Beijing News: 1937 became impressed by year in the life?
Ai Yiying: well, could not wipe off. I'm 86 years old, sometimes they ask me about the past, from other years may blur, some simply forget everything but in 1937, is now in the head.
The Beijing News: talk about things you experienced that year.
Ai Yiying: Nanjing was extremely cold in the winter that year. Village in the Japanese were coming. I saw Japan soldiers killed two people at the entrance and ran home, and told, the next day before dawn, Dad would take my brother and I to the gu family to flee. Later, father and uncle were captured, I shouted, "Dad, you brought us out, just don't take us back yet? "I remember when he said," my father will be back soon, after his younger brother ". This was his last word.
Aunt took us hid overnight in the mountains and see dad again, blood on his body, the bayonet hole, my two uncles and my cousins, hard, lost body.
The Beijing News: left widows and orphans.
Ai Yiying: mother and aunt took us to escape, escape in the process, then 12 year old cousin was also Japan soldier killed, is a group of demons.
We all hid in the mountains, can't come back to the village. At that time my mother pregnant, gave birth to my other sister in the mountains. Sister born just couldn't raise, we rarely have something to eat, MOM cried and said "sorry sorry", the sisters lost on the mountain.
At that time most afraid of the rain, her mother holding a broken umbrella and hold our three, trembling and the next morning.
The Beijing News: When do you feel less stressed out?
Ai Yiying: hid probably in March of 1938, many villagers have been back to the village, when Japan has said it is not murder. My father was buried until March of 1938, mother will go to village elders, the elders gave a few mats, and later someone dug pits in the mountains, before the father for burial.
Then MOM took us farming, not labor, her mother said how many kinds of more or less, is her one last, when she was 29 years old.
Newspaper: she is suffering the feelings will be more profound.
Ai Yiying: mother is 77 dead, she never remarried after the father was killed, she said repeatedly when I was sick with my brother and sister, "we must find a coffin burial of the bones of your father, was buried with us. ”
The public memorial ceremony
Mark a nation's pain
A: with list of victims of the Nanjing massacre after the wall, did go there every year?
Ai Yiying: my 2011 is hear of the Nanjing massacre Memorial Hall to collect survivors, their ride to the Memorial Hall, wanted to ask specific circumstances, unexpectedly in the Memorial Hall on the wailing wall, the sixth is the name of my father (Al last name according to Pinyin first).
Tomb there on December 13 after a year, I will buy some flowers, went there to pay homage to, my family was there, countless families were there, not just one write full name of wall and our past experience (history).
The Beijing News: Memorial at the national level what does it mean?
Ai Yiying: I had no father at age 9, when he said he would be back soon, it's something I'll always remember. Memorial Hall every year, also will be talking about talking about this. State of things I don't understand, this time I was in Japan, the other told me that year anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bomb attacks, Japan will be holding a major memorial activities. Those people were poor, but in terms of the degree of suffering, 77 years ago outside the city of Nanjing city that people do not want pain of several thousand? But we are putting it public memorial day.
A: so you can experience the Memorial as a SOP?
Ai Yiying: live until now, had the opportunity to speak out past suffering, for those of us survivors, there is a mood of exports. I always think of my mother these days, too many people like her, actually nothing. I was lucky, I waited.
A: what are you doing Memorial Day?
Ai Yiying: in previous years, would go to the wailing wall offered a bouquet of flowers to his family, but this time from Japan came back, listening to people speak of the Memorial, the symbol of so many leaders to the same day, as well as ceremonies for the first time, it is estimated that there will be a lot of people. Thought for a while that I would not go out. But each year, the sirens in Nanjing, whistling sound when I commemorate my loved ones in mind.
-Beijing News reporter Lu Meihui Nanjing reported
(Original title: National Memorial Day: MOM before I got it)
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