Gele Mountain Martyrs' Memorial

The sites of the Gele Mountain Martyrs' Memorial relate to how in 1943 the USA and Chiang Kaishek signed a secret agreement to set up the Sino-American Cooperation Organisation (SACO), under which the USA helped to train and dispatch secret agents for the Kuomintang. The chief of SACO was Dai Li, the ruthless head of the Kuomintang military secret service, and US Navy Commodore Milton Miles served as deputy chief.

Though the Kuomintang had recognised the Communist Red Army as allies in the struggle against the Japanese invaders, it never recognised the Communist Party as a legal political entity. The Kuomintang held adherents of repressive laws and imprisoned high-ranking and student communists alike in the SACO prisons during the era known as the Bloody Betrayal. On the night before the Kuomintang's withdrawal from the mainland on 29 November, 1949, more than 300 prisoners were marched out and executed.

Included in the Martyrs' Memorial admission is the Hong Yan Spirit Exhibition Hall, a museum filled with more macabre and gory scenes. Take bus 215 from Linjiang Lu just northwest of Liberation Monument. The ride is about an hour. A taxi is quicker and will cost you around Y30. Make sure that the driver knows where you want to get off, as the entrance is not obvious.