Sinhanch'on Incident

The Sinhanch'on Incident (Korean: 신한촌사건; Hanja: 新韓村事件) or the April Disaster (4월참변) was a massacre of Korean civilians by Japanese soldiers in the Korean enclave Sinhanch'on, Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic beginning on April 4, 1920. The massacre lasted for several days. It is not known how many were killed, although one estimate puts the number at several hundred.

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