Walking down the streets, these soldiers raped Nanjing’s women and killed its men and children without an ounce of guilt. Although citizens tried to escape, this was no easy task, as a big wall bordered the entire city. Chang tells us that over the course of six weeks, 350,000 Chinese citizens and soldiers were brutally killed, many of the citizens being completely disarmed. On page six of The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang immediately begins to tell us some of the horrific things that happened to innocent people during the tragic massacre: “Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs, and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them get torn apart by German shepherds. So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the
While the Hebrew people were being held prisoner for no apparent reason, their property and religious centers were plundered and destroyed. Hundreds of Jews died, from the piracy and many committed suicide. Germany began to conquer other countries. Hitler was an extremely sick, disgusting man who sought to eliminate non-Aryan individuals. He took over several countries for the sole purpose of getting rid people who weren’t good enough for him.
In some cases, these camps were known as “extermination” or “death” camps and the Jews were killed in purpose built gas chambers and their bodies burnt in large ovens. The conditions within the camp were inhumane, with a severe lack of food and hygiene within the walls. There are enduring images captured on camera of prisoners in these camps, so thin from starvation that their ribs are clearly visible. The carnage was so widely spread through German and occupied Europe that nearly 2 in every 3 Jews was murdered. The most infamous of the concentration camps was Auschwitz.
They were passed around from soldier to soldier, beaten, humiliated, and made a mockery while the soldiers had no mercy for their souls. They were brutally raped and murdered. Soldiers would even go so far as to shove things into the vaginal areas of the women and cut the small children open in order for them to be raped. They used a weapon
Nanjing, China When the Japanese invaded China, they looted, raped, killed the Chinese civilians of Nanjing, even after they had surrendered to Japan. This became known as the Rape of Nanjing since 20,000 women were raped and murdered, and another 300,000 had been murdered. Among these helpless victims, there were children no older than seven, and elderly woman as old as in the seventies. The significance of this was that the Chinese had many years of frustration, anger, and hatred now felt towards the Japanese who referred to the Chinese as subhuman. It also is significant because of the mass number of civilians murdered and raped AFTER they had already surrendered.
Its insight to widespread anti-Semitism, corrupt politics and outright fear of mass extermination has shed light on why the holocaust ever came to be. Only 200,000 people survived this monumental disaster and those survivors report they heard a final plea from those who were killed: “Remember! Do not let the world forget!” (Bauer 1982) The survivors have added a plea of their own: “Never again” (Bauer 1982). “Don’t ever let this come again for the Jewish people; never for any people” (Bauer 1982). The Holocaust was a horrific bloodbath that will forever leave a mark on our world’s history.
Within the first two hours of bombing more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships had been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S aircrafts were destroyed (Jennifer). Why attack? The Japanese were tired of negotiating with the United States they wanted to continue their expansion within Asia but the
On the morning of March 16,1968 during the Vietnam War , a atrocity and violence against the village of My Lai in South Vietnam occurred .US Army troops were send to destroy everything in the village . Approximately from the 700 inhabitants , 504 innocent and non-combatants women , infants , elderly and young children Vietnamese were killed in three hours and by the Americans machine gun and weapons . Many were also Sexually assaulted , tortured, or mutilated in on of the most horrifying atrocities of the entire bloody conflict . Before the My Lai Massacre , the US Army and the Charlies Company , had suffered many attacks via booby-trap or land mine, resulting numerous injuries and many deaths . Many soldiers who were in the My Lai village
By living with other women in the camps, Sara saw a lot of families on the verge of splitting, “she wanted to die with her mother. They tore her from her mother by force” (Nomberg-Przytyk 34). Death was an everyday occurrence within the camps, after a while people got used to seeing dead bodies, felt that they were next. With the number of deaths racking each day, others were pregnant and delivered their babies within the camps of the holocaust. Since Sara worked within the hospital of the camp she witnessed the birth of a baby who should have been born dead.
According to Bindel (2010) women and girls all over the world are being beaten by their husbands, raped, burned and mutilated in the name of "tradition", forced into marriage, sold into prostitution and murdered for transgressing a twisted code of "honor". Violence against women is an international epidemic. It has been identified by the World Health Organization as a grave health issue, affecting more people than .HIV and Aids. Also, Bindel (2010) states that in most countries, women have won the right to vote only within the past 50 years. There is still nowhere in the world where women have access to political or social power equal to that of men.