The Thousands Dead Pit in Datong
大同万人坑
Hours
8 am--5.30pm
About this place
There are piled up bones of the dead who were killed or persecuted to death by Japanese aggressors after they occupied Datong in the Second World War. In their 8 years aggression against Datong, they killed over 60 thousands coal workers.In Datong there are over 20 "thousands dead pits " like this, and here is one of them. It is the ironclad that Japanese aggressors cruelly killed Chinese coal mine workers and Japan aggressed against China. Nowadays here is the base for national defense and patriotic education that always remind people not to forget the national humiliation.
