The women of a burned village
villagers · Ichon, Gyeonggi, Korean Empire · early 20th century
The women of a village near Ichon that Japanese troops burned in the autumn of 1907. When the British journalist F. A. McKenzie arrived, they came forward before a stranger and told what had happened to their village. Their names are not recorded.
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1907 · Words heard through an interpreter and written down in English by the British journalist F. A. McKenzie. In a village near Ichon that Japanese troops had burned, on the grounds that it had not stopped the volunteer fighters, the women came forward and told a stranger what had happened, which he notes was unusual. The book says the autumn of 1906, but it describes the Emperor as already deposed and the army disbanded, so this was the autumn of 1907.
"We are glad," they said, "that a European man has come to see what has befallen us. We hope you will tell your people, so that all men may know."F. A. McKenzie, Korea's Fight for Freedom (1920), chapter 8 · in place of the original: the English translation by F. A. McKenzie (1920)
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