Li Du

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Li Du or Li Tu (1880 – 1956), was one of the leaders of the Kirin Self-Defence Army, one of the volunteer armies resisting the Japanese and the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria in 1932.

Following the Invasion of Manchuria by the Empire of Japan, and the Defense of Harbin. Ting Chao's beaten Kirin Self-Defence Army retired from Harbin and marched to the northeast down the Sungari River, to join the Lower Sungari garrison of General Li Du and together formed the nucleus of armed opposition in northeastern Manchuria.