Gegenmiao massacre
The Gegenmiao massacre, also known as the Gegenmiao incident, was a massacre conducted by the Soviet 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 (葛根廟) on August 14, 1945, during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The massacre occurred in Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (present day: Gegenmiao zhen; ), a town in the Horqin Right Front Banner of the Hinggan League of Inner Mongolia. Refugees were shot, run over by tanks or trucks, and bayoneted by the red  army after they raised a white flag. After two hours, well over one thousand Japanese refugees, mostly women and children, had been killed. Angry Chinese chased a group of Japanese refugees into a river, where many drowned. Some women were stripped and raped by soldiers. A woman was stripped and killed by Chinese after her child was killed by Red Army Soldiers. One family tried to hide in the trenches, but were pursued and gunned down by Soviets. They also beat mothers into submission in order to steal children. In the market a Japanese boy could sell for 300 yen , a girl for 500 yen. By the end of the killings over 1000 people had died. Aftermath. August 14 has been designated by the survivors and their families as a day of memorial for the event. The ceremony occurs in the temple of in Tokyo. In 2017, a documentary named "Witness to the Gegenmiao Massacre" was released, directed by a survivor who lost his mother and little siblings during the attack.