Captured soldiers are summarily executed, the commanders of the invaders having determined that the term "prisoner of war" will no longer be used. Thousands are executed, their bodies buried in the Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch. Young men thought to be soldiers are burned or buried alive, nailed to trees, even hung by the tongue until they die. Pregnant women and babies are treated the worst, mutilated to death in unimaginable ways. Today the survivors of the Nanking Massacre, now in their seventies and eighties, still recount the terrible things that happened over six weeks in 1937.
Adriana Brown Ms. Wheelock Hour 4 7 November 2011 Genocide in the 20th Century: The Rape of Nanking 1937-1938 Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre also known as Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. The estimation death toll in the massacre has not been achieved because most of the Japanese military records on the killings were deliberately destroyed or kept secret shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945. Although, the military estimated more than 200,000 casualties in the incident, China's official estimate is about 300,000 casualties, based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal. The actual military invasion of Nanking was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937.
Terror filled the streets of Nanjing; Japanese forced their way into the homes of innocent Chinese civilians. The Japanese forces killed anyone that was in there way. In two days the death toll totaled more than 50,000 giving the streets the name “Streets of Blood” (Yao) as the bodies of humans began to litter the streets. The only hope for the refugees to escape was to cross the Yangtze River. Upon arriving at the river the refugees found themselves trapped with no transportation.
New York: A.A. Knopf :, 1998.] The Nanking Massacre, also called the rape of Nanking, is considered to be one of the most tragic and brutal event that has ever happened in the human history which took away thousands of lives. The encounter of two different groups of people could lead to a war, an alliance, or a mutual beneficial relationship; a brutal massacre happened in the case of the encounter between the Chinese and Japanese. The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe is a collection of the author’s, John Rabe, diaries that he kept with him during the Nanking Massacre; the book gives readers a detail accounts of John Rabe’s experience and the realistic description of the incident. John Rabe was an international businessman who spent almost thirty years of his life in China; throughout the thirty years he spent in China, though he did not learn any Chinese, he learned their lifestyle, their culture and traditions, and he also learned to think like a local Chinese[ Foreword, xiii].This dairy of John Rabe’s lets readers have a deeper understanding of how the Chinese, especially those in Nanking during the massacre, felt when they were under Japanese’s ferocious attack.
Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Entire families were killed at a time. Women were systematically and brutally raped. It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.
Quickly the Japanese defeated the British and took an uncountable number of prisoners who were sent to construct the Death Railway. On the 14th of February, the Japanese went into the Alexandra Barracks Hospital armed with weapons. They murdered anyone in their track, including the wounded and the nurses. Only five people survived that massacre until the 15th of February when the British surrender the most important city. Most of the Allied soldiers couldn’t change the results of the battle.
The thousands of students were protesting for greater democracy and for the Chinese Communist Party leaders to resign because the party leaders deemed too repressive. In 1994, a civil war in Rwanda began almost immediately after a plane carrying President Habyarimana was shot down and became a complete genocide. Entire families were killed at a time and women were brutally raped. By the end, about eighty percent of all the women were widowed. Not to mention the many protests in Iran about the corrupt government.
When the purple mountain burns Through the characters used in the novel ‘When the Purple Mountain burns,’ Shouhua Qi, has managed to narrate the occurrences in China after the invasion by the Japanese military. This happened several years ago for few days, which the author stresses, were terrible and traumatizing to many. The city that was attacked in China was known as Nanjing, which the incident adopted the name, ‘Nanjing Massacre.’ As the book shows, many people including women and children lost their lives as the army fought the people indiscriminately. We note that the author has skillfully put in place the events from day one to day six with the specific dates and inclusion of the fictitious characters that have been established to create different perceptions regarding the events. Clearly, there is a moral dilemma faced by two characters, Ling and Little Chao, which caused much tension.
The CCP survived during the Nanjing decade was due to the Futian incident in 1930. This is when Mao led a violent two month purge against a rival unit within the Jiangxi Red Army. This involved the torture and mass execution of 3000 officers and men considered to be either GMD supporters or supporters of Li lisan who was also Mao’s rival. This act enabled him to wipe out any spies or people who were not fully attached to the CPP and lacks belief that they are going to be victorious. This could be seen as a key event for CCP because this gave the CCP supporters a wakeup call and made them stronger as a team.
Vanessa Campos Period: 4 May 11, 2009 The Rape of Nanking December 1, 1937, this was the day Japanese headquarters ordered Nanking to be captured. How it was to be captured, was not decided until the very moment of the capture. Furthermore, after the capture, in order for Japan to re-gain self confidence and re-establish their prideful ways of militarism, horrible atrocities were committed toward innocent civilians of China. This six-week period came to be known worldwide as The Rape of Nanking (Chang The Rape). The Rape of Nanking is one of the most important events that took place in Asia and became a major part of Chinese history, leaving unforgettable scars that would last a lifetime.