"Biological weapons are not history, they are still a reality in China," says Wang Xuan, a spokeswoman for the biowarfare victims. They are indeed a very painful reality for the survivors in the so called "rotten leg villages" near the provincial town of Jinhua in Zhejiang. In China, hundreds of victims of biological warfare are still suffering more than 60 years after their villages were attacked with anthrax, glanders and other biological weapons agents. Sunshine Project staff member Jan van Aken visited victims and their relatives in the province of Zhejiang in Eastern China, where large scale biological attacks were conducted by the Japanese Army in the 1940s.
Photo: Wang Xuan, whose family is from Chongshan, is a spokeswoman for the victims and has become a celebrity all over China.
Photo by Matthias Ziegler
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Photo: Wang Xuan, whose family is from Chongshan, is a spokeswoman for the victims and has become a celebrity all over China.
Photo by Matthias Ziegler
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