Nanking Rape
This horrific event was known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking. It is estimated that around 20,000 women including children and the elderly were raped during the Japanese occupation of Nanking city.
A large number of rapes were carried out systematically by Japanese soldiers, they went door to door looking for girls and women who were then arrested and gang-raped. And to make matters worse, the women were killed after they were raped.
This incident began with the Japanese who were furious with the Chinese Resistance, and when Nanking, the capital of China, fell in December 1937, Japanese troops immediately massacred thousands of Chinese soldiers who had surrendered to them. The Japanese then rounded up about 20,000 Chinese youths and transported them by truck to the outside of the city walls, where they would be massacred there. Japanese troops then looted the city of Nanking and raped most of the city's female population.
For six weeks, everyday Chinese life felt like a nightmare. A group of drunken Japanese soldiers roam the city, they loot, rape and kill civilians as they please. If any civilians were stopped on the street and found they did not have any property, then they would be killed immediately.
During this time, the Imperial Japanese army killed between 40,000 and 300,000 people. This number is the total number of civilians and soldiers killed.
The bodies of thousands of victims of the massacre were dumped into the Yangtze River until the river water turned red due to the corpses of the victims of the massacre. After looting Nanking City, the Japanese burned and annihilated a third of the city's area.
