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The Nanking Massacre: the forgotten holocaust which took place in the Chinese city of Nanking in December 1937.
This year marks the 71st anniversary of the Nanking Massacre. The Japanese occupation of Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China, lead to one of the greatest horrors of the century.
On December 13, 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army stormed the Chinese city of Nanking. During the following six weeks, they murdered and tortured countless civilians whose only crime was being Chinese. The awful atrocities committed during the Nanking Massacre have been ignored and scarcely mentioned. We believe it is important that people hear and learn about what happened. Everyone knows about the Nazi Holocaust, but few know about the murders during the Japanese occupation, when over 300,000 people were killed and over 20,000 women were brutally raped and killed. In addition, thousands of victims were beheaded, burned, bayoneted, buried alive, or disemboweled.
However, over the decades, the Japanese began to deny that this massacre ever occurred through broadcasting and media. Therefore, numerous efforts are now being made to teach the world what happened in China during the massacre.
In 1928, the Chinese Nationalist Government moved the capital of China from Peking (Beijing) to Nanking. The city normally held about 250,000 people, but by the mid-1930s its population had swollen to more than 1 million. Many of them were refugees, fleeing from the Japanese armies which had invaded China. On November 11, 1937, after securing control of Shanghai, the Japanese army advanced towards Nanking from different directions. In early December, the Japanese troops were already in the outskirts of Nanking.
On December 9, the Japanese troops launched a massive attack upon the city. On the 12th, the defending Chinese troops decided to retreat to the other side of the Yangtze River (Yangzi Jiang). On December 13, the 6th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army entered the city' s Zhongshan and Pacific Gates. In the afternoon, two Japanese Navy fleets arrived. In the following six weeks, the occupying forces engaged in an orgy of looting and mass execution which came to be known as the Nanking Massacre.
During the Nanking Massacre, the Japanese committed a litany of atrocities against innocent civilians, including mass execution, raping, looting, and burning. It is impossible to keep a detailed account of all of these crimes. However, from the scale and the nature of these crimes as documented by survivors and the diaries of the Japanese militarists, the chilling evidence of this historical tragedy is indisputable.
The Nanking Massacre remains one of the most inhuman and horrifying crimes ever committed in the human civilization history. 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 including so-called "historians", have denied the occurrence of the Nanking Massacre in public and tried to whitewash the atrocities that the Japanese army brought to China.
We do not encourage people to anti-Japan. We believe some people who pass through our page have Japanese friends or family, and so do we. Our purpose is to allow real history be known by the whole world as universal knowledge. Since Japan has made changes of history in textbook to teach their students an unreal version of events of the past. Besides, a Japanese nationalist filmmaker Satoru Mizushima is making a film as doing his part to convince the world that the Nanking Massacre never happened. However, there is no way to erase the evidence and deaths of 300,000 civilians including defenseless women and children. The move not only reveals their inability to face Japan's wartime atrocities in Nanking but also cause embarrassment for Japan.
The forgiveness can be granted, but the history must not be distorted. This page is set up to preserve and disseminate the truth about the Nanking Massacre and to the memory of its victims.
May 300,000 victims R.I.P.
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