From 1937 to 1938, more than 60 years after if not the most inhuman and bloody holocaust, the Nanjing Massacre is still being covered up by the Japanese government. The Chinese (Peking/Beijing) government never expresses a strong stand on the issue, due to economic consideration, not to mention helping the war time victims to demand a proper OFFICIAL APOLOGY and compensation from the Japanese government. The picture supplied above, showing a Chinese civilian woman being raped and violently abused. They are the biggest group of victim in the holocaust. They come from China, Korea and Japan. Yet, the Japanese Ian-fu (wei-an fu/comfort women) were recruited under a prostitution system, which means that they were willing to supply sex service to the Japanese army.
Most comfort women died in shame: it was and still is considered a shame to the family if a woman in the family is raped; they have born this burden for too long and have never been properly represented in courts. They are in their 70s or 80s now, and are still going to Japanese Embassies in person to demand for a share of just. (more) Iris Chang, the author of the book "Rape of Nanking: a forgotten holocaust", is the pioneer of a conscious young Asian generation voice to fight for the rights of the comfort women during the Japanese brutal invasion of other nations in Asia.
In that relatively short period of time, over 360, 000 Chinese people were killed in Nanjing city, with a vast majority of which being civilians (i.e. not soldier). Many of those having been tortured, mutilated, or raped first; or they were thrown into mass grave alive. Women raped counts up to the number of 20,000 - and the largest group of women raped was not in China.
One has to wonder if the Japanese atrocities has a limit to its cruelty, at all. Stories were told by surviving Chinese, who were mostly living in Western nations like U.S.A. now. Old men then saw how the Japanese made sure a group of Chinese they captured and held would stay together: they did not tie or chain them together, but took wires and stuck them through the captives' palms. What on earth made the Japanese so full of hatred that they did all these things?
In at least one incident, Japanese tanks tried to cross over a ditch but was unable to because the ditch was too deep or wide. They, then, pointed their guns to the Chinese civilians and forced them to jump into the ditches. Tens of thousands of people were buried alive like this. Well, after all, the Japanese tanks did make it across the ditch.
Photographs always show while a Japanese soldier was practising bayonet with someone alive or about to behead someone, there were heaps of his counterparts in the background, watching and grinning. They are now being dug out as strong evidence against Japanese denial to such war crimes; ironically, most of them were taken as souvenirs to the Japanese troops, by themselves. |
