Did you know: up to 80,000 women were raped & killed in 1937 at Nanking?

Question

Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal estimated 20,000-80,000 women in Nanking, China were raped and killed by Japanese soldiers during the Nanking Massacre in Dec 1937.
* Soldiers searched door-to-door for young girls, who were taken to be gang raped and killed.
* The victims' ages ranging from infants to as old as 80.
* Rapes were sometimes in front of spouses or family members.
* The women were killed immediately after the rape, often by mutilation.
* Sometimes sons were forced to rape their mothers, fathers forced to rape daughters
* Monks who had declared a life of celibacy were forced to rape women for the amusement of the Japanese.

In 1982, the Japanese Ministry of Education censored any mention of the Nanking Massacre in a high school textbook. Their official stance was that "Nanking Massacre was not a well-established historical event."

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre#Rape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqH47MIpuoA

madsmaha55: Humans should know about the bad consequences of war and, in this case, how it can affect women. If someone doesn't think being raped and killed is a big deal, then it won't matter if it happens to you or others around you.

To Cassius and ЙÏđª√έℓℓΐ®: it is fortunate that the WW1&2 statistics you cited are widely being taught. The point is this: political revisionism is dangerous and should be discouraged. Imagine German textbooks not mentioning Auschwitz, and German youths not learning specific mass extermination attempts but were simply taught "bad things happened in Germany and the world", and the same students grow up to be Holocaust deniers to various extents. Would you find that morally acceptable? Young people in Japan today did not commit this atrocity, of course, but many of them are not aware of the extent of the suffering their predecessors caused, due to their education. That is the situation with Japan now, and the reason there is tension with China and Korea. Would you still feel indifferent if war breaks out in the region and implicate the United States when Japan asks help?

Answer 1

Thank you for the history lesson. We need to know this because there is a war happening right. I know these kinds of acts are going on within this war. All of you who say so what to this post are the reason that it is being repeated.

Answer 2

the ingredient is; Muslim do no longer kill women who were raped, yet whilst that girls won't be able to data the rape, then is seen adultery, and rape is fairly confusing to data particularly decrease than Sharia regulation it is demands the testimony of four purely adult males and don't accepts forensic data. So relies upon of the rustic. extra modern-day and secular Muslim countries do no longer use Sharia and use forensic data to technique a rape case. The killing of a women for adultary (whilst she actual became rape) does occurs yet in easy terms in some very fundamentalist countries have been Sharia regulation is practice.

Answer 3

I didnt know for now about this massacre. But is a pity that all these women were victims. I believe at the state of war women must have weapons to defend themselves and their loved ones. All women must learn to use some weapons so that they at least die defending and posing fear in the enemy!

Answer 4

Yes, I was familiar with that. There have been so many atrocities associated with wars. My uncle and his family are Chinese, so I have an interest in Chinese history. I agree that we need to remember things like this, to hopefully make them less likely in the future.

Answer 5

This event is a horrible atrocity. I believe there is a book about it written by Iris Chang, I also believe the author later killed herself, so terrible.

Answer 6

Do you know that more than nine million soldiers and civilians died in World War 1?

Do you know that about 20 million soldiers and 40 million civilians died in World War 2?

No I did not know your fact.
Current Japan has nothing to do with that atrocity though if that is what you are suggesting.

Answer 7

No, I did not know that.

This is a yes or no question set up... I am not sure what else you would be looking for in my response.

Answer 8

Why only concerned about women? Take this:
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=413523

Answer 9

and 50 million soldiers and civilians died at the hand of the Wehrmacht so whats your point ?

Answer 10

way way way before my time