nanking (also nanjing)
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HISTORY 12MS LESLIE
Nanking(also Nanjing)
During the Sino-Japanese War that preceded WWII. Anywhere between 100,000 – 300,000 died. Nanjing was the capital of Nationalist China from 1928-1937. General Matsui ordered the destruction of the city. The army burned and looted 1/3 of all buildings.
Rape of Nanking
Often labeled the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’Dec 1937-Jan 193820,000 – 80,000 women were raped by the Japanese imperial army.Infants and the elderly were rapedsoldiers would search door-to-door for young girlsmany women taken captive and gang raped. The women were often killed immediately after the rape, often through explicit mutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina.
Raped and Murdered Children
Doctors would report up to 1,000 cases of rape a night. It was common for Japanese soldiers to enter an area of refugees and kill, maim and rape until satisfied. If men intervened they would be shot
Pregnant women would often be raped, bayoneted in the stomach and then shot
Murder
Japanese Soldiers looked for plain clothes Chinese Soldiers hiding in the civilian population
Decided all men from 18-45 were disguised soldiers
Mass executions‘ten-thousand corpse ditch’ – along the
Yangtze River. Around 12,000 bodies found
The Japanese officers turned the act of murder into sport. They would set out to kill a certain number of Chinese
before the other. Young men would also be used for bayonet training. Their
limbs would be restrained or they would be tied to a post while the Japanese soldiers took turns plunging their bayonets into the victims' bodies
Turning killing into sport
Bayonet Practice
In all around 57,000 Chinese soldiers killed1940, Nanking made the capital for the
Japanese puppet government of ChinaAfter WWII, Matsui was tried and found
guilty of war crimes – put to death
Japan still denies the extent of the raping and massacres
First formal apology from Japanese government for war crimes was in 1995. A general apology, doesn’t acknowledge anything specific
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