"I went to the Tokyo Tribunal  to gave evidence of  the  atrocities by Japanese troops"

In December 1937, when the Japanese army approached Nanjing, my parents, wife, and eldest son were all evacuated to northern Jiangsu, leaving me alone to look after the house in Nanjing. At that time, I was a traffic policeman in Nanjing. After the Japanese army occupied  Nanjing, they killed everyone they encountered. Nanjing, with the original population of one million, almost became an empty city. I hid in the  refugee shelter in  the fomer judiciary  that was under the "protection" of the International Committee for Nanking Safty Zone.

At around 8 am on December 15, a dozen of Japanese soldiers came suddenly. They drove all young men outside on the road, in a total of 2,000 or more. At about 11 am, under the escort of Japanese troops, we all lined up to set off. When we walked to the front of the Capital Cinema (now the Victory Cinema), several trucks drove from behind the team, loaded with Japanese soldiers and machine guns. Then these trucks drove ahead of our team and we continued to march from the capital cinema. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the team arrived at Hanzhong Gate. The Japanese soldiers stopped us inside the gate and ordered us to sit down. Then, two Japanese soldiers held a long rope, with one person holding one end of it respectively, and bound more than one hundred people from the crowd. They were surrounded by a large number of Japanese soldiers and taken out of the Hanzhong Gate, then were shot dead with machine guns. In this way, I saw  batches of people were bound  by ropes, with one or two hundred people in each group , then were taken out of  the Hanzhong Gate and shot dead. Some people were too scared to move, then they were killed just on the spot. At around five o'clock in the afternoon, I was also bound in a group , and the Japanese soldiers took us to the bank of the moat, driving us to the slope of the bank. I saw two machine guns on both sides of the river bank, and then observed dead bodies were lying in a state of disarray. I was so sacred, and I couldn’t help but ran forward a few steps, then threw myself on the bodies. Just as I fell, the machine guns roared , and people fell down one after another. I was buried under the bodies of others. After the machine gun stopped firing, rifle gunshots could be heard. When the rifle stopped, I felt like someone was walking on the pile of bodies . Because I was holding my head in the direction of the river bank, face down, and I felt the pressure of someone walking through the bodies on my back. At this time, all of a sudden, a bayonet stabbed on my back and it hurt so badly. It turned out that the Japanese soldiers were stabbing the dying people over me with a bayonet the tip of which pierced through the bodies of the people above me and stabbed my back. After that, I heard two consecutive machine guns which indicated that they slaughtered another two batches of people. Then, the Japanese troops set fire to burn the bodies. I couldn’t bear the heavy smoke and risked my life to jump into the Qinhuai River under the protection of darkness. Fortunately, there was not much water in the river. I crawled to the south along the river and reached Shuiximen, then managed to hide in the kitchen of a house in the vicinity of No. 9 Wachang Street. I disguised myself as a beggar,using straws to cover my face with ashes. I made great efforts to escape back to the safety zone . Later, I was sent to the Drum Tower Hospital for treatment, staying there for more than 50 days, and the wound was cured to some extent. Now I still have a five-inch scar on my back.

In May 1946, when the Japanese Class A war criminal suspect Iwane Matsui (松井石根), the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, was on trial in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, I was one of the witnesses to testify as the survivor of the massacre in court to give evidence of the atrocities committed by the Japanese troops in Nanjing