Rape of Nanking
Although many people thought that the World War II started in Europe, it actually had roots in Asia with the rape of Nanking. Between December of 1937 and March 1938, at least 369,366 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war (POWs) were slaughtered by the invading Japanese troops. An estimated 80,000 women and girls were raped; many of them were then mutilated or murdered. Thousands of victims were beheaded, burned, bayoneted, buried alive, or disemboweled. To this day the Japanese government has refused to apologize for these and other World War II atrocities, and a significant sector of Japanese society denies that they took place at all.It all started in the early 1930s when Japan began its industrial revolution. They were made up of 142,270 square miles, much of it barren, and they had to feed over 6 million mouths. What they couldn't understand and believed was unfair was the fact that other countries such as Australia and Canada have more than 3 million square miles to feed 6.5 million people each. They fought the injustice of it all since these countries weren't even making the most of the land that they had like the Japanese were. The Japanese felt China their manifest destiny as America did the west many years ago. They
Everywhere they went, they were split into smaller groups of one to two hundred men and killed, but the other groups didn't know. One of the largest, and actually THE largest massacre was the execution of 57,000 soldiers and civilians at Mufu Mountain. The had so many men that they disarmed them, transported them to the Yangtze River where they were told they would be spending time on a small island called Baguazhou. When the got there, they waited until dark and the Japanese soldiers surrounded them in an arc and shot machine guns until every last Chinese man was dead. But now the Japanese faced the problem of disposing of the bodies. They tried to dig ditches, but couldn't make them large enough to hold 7-8 thousand bodies. They tried burning them but they didn't have enough gas. The dumped gas all over the bodies but the flame didn't last long enough to make the bodies into ashes, so all they had left were piles of burnt corpses. They eventually decided to just throw the bodies into the River and call it quits.
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Approximate Word count = 3472
Approximate Pages = 14 (250 words per page double spaced)
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