Gegenmiao massacre

The Gegenmiao massacre, also known as the Gegenmiao incident, was a massacre conducted by the Soviet army against a group of some 1,800 Japanese refugees on August 14, 1945. It happened in Gegenmiao, a town in what is now the Horqin Right Front Banner of the Hinggan League of Inner Mongolia. The refugees were shot, run over by tanks or trucks, and bayoneted by the Soviet Army after they raised a white flag. After two hours, a well over thousand Japanese, mostly women and children were slaughtered. Chinese also attacked them, and some Japanese were chased into river and drowned. Some women were stripped to last piece of clothing, and raped by soldiers. A woman was stripped and killed by Chinese after her child was killed by the Soviet Army. They also batted down mothers in order to steal children. In the market a Japanese boy could sell for 300 yen, a girl for 500 yen.