What the records say
- When
- 14 Aug 1945
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 1,000
- Coordinates
- 45.92° N, 122.29° E
- Description
- massacres
Placed at the coordinates of its Japanese Wikipedia article.
Gegenmiao massacre
1945 massacre by the Soviet Red Army
The Gegenmiao massacre (Chinese: 葛根廟屠殺; pinyin: Gégēn miào túshā; Wade–Giles: Ko2-ken1 miao4 tu2-sha1) or the Gegenmiao incident (Chinese: 葛根廟事件; pinyin: Gégēn miào shìjiàn; Wade–Giles: Ko2-ken1 miao4 shih4-chien4) was a war crime by the Red Army and a part of the local Chinese population against over half of a group of 1,800 Japanese women and children who had taken refuge in the lamasery Gegenmiao (Koken-miao) on A…
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