WEI Shao-lan 韦绍兰

WEI Shao-lan

韦绍兰

Born in Guangxi, China), Drafted year: 1944, 24y/o, for 3 months

I was pregnant with a Japanese soldier's baby,

and the baby was born.

My mother-in-law said this baby was a bad luck

and wanted to kill it after birth,

but let it live.....

I had already been married with a one-year-old daughter when Japanese soldiers came to the village. I was captured by the Japanese soldiers with my daughter on my back. Four other women and I were forced into a military truck.

Two of them resisted and they were shot to death. I was worried about my daughter so I just had to get in the truck.

I cannot forget the first time I was raped. The Japanese soldier lay down my child on the ground, and didn’t care if she cried while he did it to me.

I could not fight back out of fear that the soldier might hurt my baby or kill me. Four to five soldiers came per day.

About 3 months later, I ran away in the middle of the night with my child on my back who was asleep. When I came home, my father told me not to blame myself, because it wasn’t my fault.

My daughter had a stomach ache, but I couldn’t take her to the hospital because we didn’t have money. She died after three months. At the time, I was pregnant with a Japanese soldier's baby, and the baby was born.

My mother-in-law said this baby was a bad luck and wanted to kill it after birth, but let it live because it was a boy that she thought he could grow up and work.

* The villagers despise the mother and son(Luo Shanxue罗善学) for a ridiculous reason that he looks like a Japanese soldier. He couldn’t go to school regularly, and the two of them make living doing odd jobs in the village. Even now, it is obvious that their relatives look down on them.