'I pretended to be dead'

When he spoke about the massacre, 87-year-old Pan Shouli became so angry that he beat the ground with his walking stick in fury.

"If I hadn't been pinned down by the corpses and pretended to be dead, I wouldn't have survived. As I lay there, I saw a Japanese solider holding my young cousin by the legs, one in each hand. He ripped the child apart as if he were tearing cloth and then threw him against a wall. The boy was only 4 years old," he said.

"The massacre lasted from the morning until the afternoon. To ensure that no one was still alive, the Japanese soldiers bayoneted the bodies. I was stabbed in my left leg, but I held my breath and ignored the pain. I didn't move and kept on pretending to be dead," Pan said, rolling up his pant leg to show the scar.