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The Rape of Nanking
One thing that history does is turn you into a doubter. Regardless of what period of history you study, you’re eventually going to come across a time of some pretty evil and nasty acts by humans against each other. Even till now the present day, massacre appears to be one of human beings favorite doings. On December 13 1937, in the book the Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang, she states many reasons to why people are filled with good and bad natures in times like this.
Because just by looking at them, there past of unhappiness and a dark time will haunt them. "Before Leaving, the soldiers murdered the landlords two children, aged four and two; they bayoneted the older Child and split the bead of the younger one with a sword (Pg. 92)." Chinese children were helpless, once in the hands of Japanese soldiers there was little hope. The rape of these women is the most horrific pan about what was going on in Nanking. Young Women, ages from live and older would be victims of rape by Japanese soldiers. Women that were Victims of rape would end up to be sex slaves to please the needs of Japanese soldiers whenever they wanted. On page 92 Chang tells a story of Mrs. Hsia. A Chinese wife of a tenant. “The Japanese then tagged Mrs. Hsia from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her one-year old baby. They stripped her. Raped her. Then bayoneted her in the chest when they were finished." It was like-Lier life had no meaning to Japanese soldiers. They had no respect for women. Hey raped her and killed her. She had known chance of survival. "... at least one girl was raped two or three times a day. Eventually she became so diseased the Japanese left her alone (Pg. 93)."" ...

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...me the world's most horrific genocides. The deaths that occurred in the total of six weeks were horrible.
Non-government authorized medical experiments were performed on the Chinese people. These people were injected with deadly germs, poisons and lethal gasses. The topic of human behavior in the Rape of
Nanking is evil and it will always be evil because of those Japanese soldiers who made a choice to stand for a greater cause but changed their view because of what their cultural belief was based on. For the people of china they suffered from both kinds of rape: Rape mentally because they would live in depression and fear of Japan. Physical because of the killings and rapes that Chinese men, women and children endured during the six-week killing spree. Japan carries not only the legal burden but the moral obligation to acknowledge the evil in perpetrated at Nanking.

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