The Nanjing Massacre: Scenes from a Hideous Slaughter 75 Years Ago
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A Chinese woman, clutching a child, grieves by the body of her slain husband, Dec. 30, 1937.
75 years ago, on Dec. 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured the city
of Nanjing, then the capital of the Chinese republic led by Chiang
Kai-shek and went on a six-week campaign of carnage and slaughter that
would be forever remembered as the “Rape of Nanjing.” Reports document
widespread rape and the indiscriminate killing of civilians; some death
tolls estimate over a quarter of a million people were killed. The
incident, though, still rankles Sino-Japanese relations. Japanese
nationalists contend that the death tolls are inflated and the majority
killed were resisting Japanese occupation. To this day, pages in
Japanese school history textbooks can incite heated protests on the
streets in China. Then and now, the Nanjing massacre remains one of the
darkest events of the last century.—Ishaan Tharoor
Source http://world.time.com/2012/12/13/the-nanjing-massacre-scenes-from-a-hideous-slaughter-75-years-ago/photo/portrait-of-chinese-wife-with-body-of-slain-husband/
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