Port Arthur massacre

Wann

Nov. 1894

Art

Massaker

Tote

2.600

Koordinaten

38.85° N, 121.26° E

Description

Massacre during the First Sino-Japanese War

1894 massacre by the Japanese army

The Port Arthur massacre took place during the First Sino-Japanese War from 21 November 1894 for three days, in the Chinese coastal city of Port Arthur, when advance elements of the First Division of the Japanese Second Army under the command of General Yamaji Motoharu (1841–1897) killed somewhere between 2,600 civilians and 20,000 people including Chinese soldiers, although one eyewitness reporter estimated a total…

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