Fuxin mass grave

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The mass grave of Fuxin ( 阜新 万人坑 , Fùxīn wànrénkēng ) is a generic term for various mass graves located in the Taiping (Fuxin) district in the Chinese province of Liaoning .

About 60,000 slave laborers from the coal mines of Fuxin are buried here, who died under Japanese conditions between 1935 and 1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and its Manchurian prehistory .

The mass grave of Fuxin ( Fuxin wanrenkeng ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-918) since 2006 .