The Nanking Massacre Not many people know or understand what really happened in Nanking, China during the Nanking Massacre. The Nanking Massacre, also known as “The Rape of Nanking,” is an example of inhuman treatment by the Japanese Army to Chinese civilians. In the incident, many Chinese civilians were tortured, raped and murdered. The torture that the Japanese applied to the native population at Nanking almost surpasses the limits of human comprehension and includes live burials, mutilation and dog attacks. Japanese soldiers would force one group of Chinese captives to dig a grave, a second group to bury the first, and then a third group to bury the second and so on.
The Japanese army, determined to take China and use its vast resources to fuel their defeat of the Oriental half of the world, marched through China in 1937, laying waste to everything they marched through. As the Chinese realized what they were facing, they burned and destroyed fuel, food, and anything else that might help the Japanese as they approached Nanking. Soldiers, knowing they would be executed if caught in or out
Black Arabs were being discriminated against because they were black and they were being told that they weren't in the right religion. The government began sending out armies of men who were called the Janjaweed. These Janjaweed killed anyone who got in the way and they began to get out of control by raping women, killing children and families for no reason at all. Over 5,000 villages were
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Another example in Candide of an imperfect world is when Cunegonde got raped. She also got enslaved to several men that used her as their mistress. These acts of the men were horrific and prove that the world is not perfect. Also, the Lisbon Earthquake is another other example of an imperfect world. This earthquake symbolized God’s cruelty to the people.
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