evidence: Process [edit]Blagoveshchensk [edit]Sixty-Four Villages East of the River [edit]Lieutenant-General Konstantin Gribskiy ordered the expulsion of all Qing subjects who remained north of the river.[4] This included the residents of the villages, and Chinese traders and workers who lived in Blagoveshchensk proper, where they numbered anywhere between one-sixth and one-half of the local population of 30,000.[4][5] They were taken by the local police and driven into the river to be drowned. Those who could swim were shot by the Russian forces.[6] There were 1,266 households, including 900 Daurs and 4,500 Manchus in the area until the massacre.[7] Many Manchu villages were burned by Cossacks in the massacre according to Victor Zatsepine.[8] [...] Further reading [edit]- Yang, Chuang; Gao, Fei; Feng (2006). 海兰泡和江东六十四屯惨案 [The Tragic Case of Blagoveshchensk/Hailanpao and the Sixty-Four Villages East of the River]. 百年中俄关系 [A Century of China–Russia Relations] (in Chinese). Beijing: World Affairs Press. ISBN 7-5012-2876-0.