In April 1942, as the commander of the infantry brigade and the defense commander of the Tangshan area, he commanded his troops to participate in the "Fengrun Crusade". The 1st Regiment under him killed 220 peaceful residents including Liu Baohe, Liu Jian, Li Youyu, Liu Qingchi, and Li Anding in Lujiayu Township, Zunhua County, Hebei Province, using brutal methods such as slashing, burning, and poison gas. . What was particularly cruel was that Qian Lianfa's two daughters-in-law, one grandson, and one granddaughter were gassed to death, and one daughter was gang-raped to death after being poisoned; Yu Changhe's wife Li was disemboweled and disemboweled because she refused to be raped. fetus. The unit also set fire to more than 1,900 houses. This is the "Lujiayu Massacre".
In April 1942, its 1st Regiment killed 35 peaceful residents including Guo Zhenlai, Bai Jiwu, Ren Xianzhang, and Zheng Guangzhi in Liubeizhai Village, Zunhua County, Hebei Province, and burned down more than 330 houses. During this period, more than 120 livestock were looted. This is the "Liu Beizhai Massacre".
In October 1942, under his order, the 1st Regiment went to Dongxinzhuang Village, Zunhua County, Hebei Province to conduct "mopping up". The Japanese army used brutal methods such as burning, stabbing, dog bites, and poison gas to kill more than 40 people including Xu Zhi, our anti-Japanese patriot and peaceful residents, including Gui Xingfu, Cao Wangui, Wang Zhaoxiang, and Zhang Shuyuan. They also burned more than 100 private houses and robbed more than 70 grains. ton. This is the "Dongxinzhuang Village Massacre".
On October 28, 1942, under his order, the 1st Regiment and the Cavalry under his command jointly went to Panjiadaizhuang, Luan County, Hebei Province to conduct a "mopping up" operation. The Japanese army carried out a bloody massacre there. They stabbed, beat with clubs, burned, buried alive and other brutal methods to kill more than 1,280 peaceful residents of our country, including Dai Guoli, Ma Wenhuan, Qi Pancheng, Dai Fuzeng, etc., including 63 pregnant women including Zhou Shuen's wife Gao, and 9 pregnant women including Zhou Shuzhen. Toddlers. They also raped more than 100 women and burned more than 1,000 houses. This is the appalling "Pan Family Daizhuang Massacre".
From September to December 1942, in order to carry out the "Public Security Strengthening Movement", Suzuki Keihisa ordered his subordinate troops to create "no man's land" along the Great Wall in Zunhua, Qian'an and other counties in Hebei Province. ", expelled a large number of our peaceful residents, causing them to be displaced and their families destroyed. Only 172 of the peaceful residents who were expelled were found to have died of cold and starvation, including Guo Liansheng, Fu Luoquan, Fang Zhansheng, Zhang Yongsheng, and Liu Wanrui. They also killed more than 230 peaceful residents of our country, including Wang Erzhu, Yuan Ruishan, Li Jinbang, Liu Kaishan, and Zheng Yongyu, and burned more than 15,700 private houses. The Japanese army built more than 290 kilometers of blockade ditches and many gun towers between Qian'an County and Luan County, Zunhua County and Fengrun County, and south of Tangshan in Hebei Province, destroying a large amount of cultivated land; they forced our peaceful residents to engage in military service There were more than 6 million working days of sexual labor. Among the people who served in the labor force, according to Suzuki Keihisa's own confession alone, more than 300 people died due to abuse.
On October 17, 1944, Suzuki Keihisa, as the acting division commander of the 117th Division of the Japanese Army, ordered the 204th Independent Infantry Brigade of the 87th Brigade under his command to go to Changyuan County, Henan Province to carry out a "punitive expedition" ". The Japanese army surrounded Xiaoqu Village and killed more than 660 peaceful residents including Liu Junying, Tang Jinsheng, Liu Jingang, Zhang Yongshan, Zhang Guoqi, and Huang Pixun by means of slashing, burning, and throwing them into wells. This is the "Xiaoqu Village Massacre".
On August 12, 1945, Suzuki Keihisa, as the commander of the Japanese 117th Division, ordered his 87th Brigade to burn and destroy the train station, water supply station, and railway station in Baicheng County, Jilin Province. Civilian buildings and equipment such as telephone stations, railway hospitals, grain depots and bridges. At that time, more than 8,400 tons of grain and more than 280,000 kilograms of oil were burned. Five peaceful residents who went to put out the fire were also shot.
To sum up, when Suzuki Keihisa participated in the Japanese imperialist war of aggression against our country, he did commit an aggressive war against China, violated the norms of international law and the principles of humanity, and commanded his troops to create no man's land. , destroyed our country’s cities and towns and villages, expelled our country’s peaceful residents, brutally killed and abused our patriots and peaceful residents, robbed and destroyed people’s property, used poison gas, raped women and other serious crimes. He himself confessed to all the above-mentioned crimes and had a good attitude towards confessing.
In his final statement during the trial of the special military court, Suzuki Keihisa said: As a senior commander of the Japanese army, I violated China's sacred territory.
For about seven years, I ordered my subordinates to kill a large number of peaceful residents without any reason, burn down countless residents' houses, plunder a large amount of supplies, and implement the "Three Guangs Policy." This is very cruel and inhumane. I am very ashamed and don’t know how to apologize. I ask the court to give me severe punishment so that I can take responsibility for my past. I committed such a serious crime and should have been severely punished, but I was treated leniently and humanely by the Chinese people. Although I have ignored the Chinese people's personality in the past, my personality has been respected, and with meticulous care, my life and health have been protected. I was originally frail and sickly, but after two hospitalizations and hundreds of injections of expensive medicines, I became as healthy as I am today. I can only express my deep gratitude from the bottom of my heart. Who are the people who protect my life and health? It is the Chinese people who we have killed their relatives and destroyed their peaceful lives without any reason. Thinking of this, my heart felt like it was breaking. After studying at the War Criminals Management Center, I gradually understood how to live as a person and how to be a real person. For this, too, I should give thanks. According to my crime, there was no room for defense in court. However, the court helped me find a defense lawyer and informed me of my rights in court. I thank the Chinese people and sincerely apologize. I will always remember the lenient treatment shown to me by the Chinese people. I firmly promise to completely correct my past mistakes and start a new life. The world is in a contradiction between peace and war. I will always follow the peaceful policy of the Chinese people. If I have the rest of my life, I will spend the rest of my life opposing war and defending peace.