Chinese Prisoners
Rape of Nanking
Allied soldiers were not the only people whose rights were infringed upon. In 1937, Japanese struck Nanking, China, and raped and pillaged the city. Everyone, prisoner or civilian, was mowed down by machine guns or beheaded in a contest among generals. The deaths are estimated to be between 200,000 and 300,000. |
Tsuchiya Yoshio was a former Japanese lieutenant during the Rape of Nanking
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"Few know that soldiers impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them still alive into pots of boiling water. They gang-raped women from the ages of twelve to eighty and then killed them when they could no longer satisfy sexual requirements. I beheaded people, starved them to death, burned them, and buried them alive, over two hundred in all. It is terrible that I could turn into an animal and do these things. There are really no words to explain what I was doing. I was truly a devil." |