The Disturbing Story of the Rape of Nanjing
A sad episode of mass murder and mass rape in China.
Nanjing, also known as Nanking is the capital city of China’s eastern Jiangsu province. The Imperial Japanese Army forces over a period of about six weeks, in late 1937, massacred thousands of people including both soldiers and innocent civilians in the city.
All those horrific events of mass murder and mass rape are commonly referred to as the Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing. Reports tell us that between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted by the Japanese army.
Nanjing, which was the capital of Nationalist China at that time, was completely destroyed. It took several decades for the city and its people to recover from those savage and brutal attacks.
The Preparation For The Invasion
The Japanese, after their bloody victory in Shangai during the Sino-Japanese War, turned their faces towards Nanjing. Chiang Kai-Shek, the Nationalist leader, fearful of losing to the Japanese in the battle, ordered the removal of almost all the official Chinese forces from the city.
The removal meant that the city would be defended by untrained auxiliary troops. Chiang told these untrained men to defend the city at any cost and forbade…
