[The 4th Media Editor’s Note: The following short article is based from the following source: http://ilookchina.net/2013/01/21/the-rape-of-nanking-part-12/. However, the photo collection included in the article is done by The 4th Media.]
After Nanking fell to the Japanese, several hundred thousand Chinese civilians were raped and murdered, and during World War II between 3 million to more than 10 million civilians, mostly Chinese, were killed by the Japanese occupation forces.
Although China has suffered from internal war and strife, the Han Chinese have seldom invaded another nation outside of what we know as China today in its four-thousand year history.
In addition, until the 1980s, China was almost always self-sufficient. After the first emperor unified China, to wage war on neighboring countries to conquer and rule over them was not part of the Chinese character.
Nanking was the capital of China from the third to the 6th century.
In the 14th century, the first Ming Emperor made Nanking the capital again.
To protect the capital, the largest city wall in the world was built.
It was fifty-feet high, forty-feet wide and more than twenty-five miles long.
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Part 2, The Rape of Nanking
On July 1937, Japan attacked China, and Chiang Kai-shek was the commander of China’s army and navy.
The battle for Shanghai came first.
Tens of thousands of innocent Chinese were killed while 300 thousand Chinese troops died.
After losing Shanghai, the Chinese army retreated to Nanking.
The Japanese soldiers were ordered to burn all, steal all, and kill all as they advanced through the countryside toward Nanking.
It is estimated that 300 thousand innocent Chinese were murdered in that military campaign.
For over one-hundred days, Japanese bombers bombed Nanking, while Chinese troops fought fiercely defending the city.
Eventually, Chang Kai-shek fled with most of his generals and government officials, but ordered one general to stay behind with the army and fight.
After Nanking fell to the Japanese, several hundred thousand Chinese civilians were raped and murdered, and during World War II between 3 million to more than 10 million civilians, mostly Chinese, were killed by the Japanese occupation forces.
Continued on January 22, 2013, in The Rape of Nanking – Part 2, and/or discover The Roots of Madness
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