The Nanking Massacre

This massacre was something this world will never forget. This is something that will always remain an open wound in cultures past. It all started in 1928 when Chinese Nationalist Government moved the capital of China from Peking, Beijing. The city itself held about 250,000 normally. By the mid 1930’s there was more than a million people. Many were people fleeing from the Japanese Government that was destroying areas by the second. On November 11, 1937 after securing control of Shanghai the Japanese army advanced towards Nanking from many different directions. In early December Japanese troops were already on the outskirts of Nanking. December 9th the Japanese troops launched a massive attack upon the city. On the 12th the defending troops

Many events would go on. Mass executions, rape, robbery, and lots of burning. Chinese soldiers would be hunter down and killed. Originally there was a Nanking safe zone and the Japanese agreed to respect it, but not even those in the safe zone were safe. Any Chinese prisoners were burned alive. Kids would not be spared. They all would get killed also. Immediately after the Japanese arrived to Nanking mass executions took place. People were placed on their knees, blindfolded and sat backwards, shot in the back of the head. Japanese soldiers would do the worst possible things to any women, young, old, teens, kids. Any women they saw they would rape and torture in the worst possible ways. Some were held as sex slaves and others suffered a long painful death. Any women that was pregnant previously or fell pregnant would be stabbed in their bellies. Women would have their breasts cut off, stabbed in their genitals and nailed to walls. Some fell so hungry and thirsty they died of dehydration and starvation. Bodies would be dismembered and thrown into rivers, people would get choked randomly while walking the streets. While the Japanese sat and got drunk, the Chinese would be running for their lives. Mass graves would be made and bodies would be thrown until there was absolutely no more space and then

Here are a few things she has said, “One day, six or seven Japanese troops arrived, all of them armed with guns, knives hanging by their waists. They took six or seven maidens from the crowd of refugees. I was among those taken. There was also a maiden I recognized, her name was Little Qiaozi. One Japanese soldier forced me into an empty room. I can remember him being chubby, with a beard. Once we were both in the room, he used a knife to force me to take off my pants—I would be killed if I didn’t. I was thus raped in this manner.” You can see just how cold hearted these men were towards all women. Wen also stated, “I hid in that cellar for several months,” This shows just how scary this whole thing was for all these poor, innocent humans. They were treated like an item, not a human, not someone worth of themselves. Zhang Xiuhong, who was a women who was raped apart of the six week long terror. She states in an interview that after the fact she was rapes, she tried to commit suicide three times afterwards. She was just eleven years old at the time of the attack. She should have still been playing with toys and barbies, not knowing what suicide was, what sexual contact is or even what rape was. These people were truly damaging the lives of many. Even ones very young. She happened to tell in an interview, “I’ve repeated this a thousand times, I pretended to be dead so the soldiers would go