The Rape of Nanking: The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War by History Captivating

Author:History, Captivating
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 – The Rape of Tens of Thousands of People

As the Chinese prisoners were being executed outside of the city, the Japanese soldiers who remained inside the city walls began to commit atrocities against the citizens. Unlike the soldiers acting on orders outside of the city, the men who had entered Nanjing had no such orders to cause harm. Their actions would come to be classified as criminal acts, which means that the actions of these soldiers were not done in any military capacity. The soldiers have been said to have been undisciplined, but based on the barbarity of the attacks against unarmed citizens, the problem was not based on the soldiers’ lack of discipline but indicated a much deeper problem.

The next three chapters examine the three primary types of crimes that the Japanese committed against the Chinese citizens who had no means of escaping Nanjing.

The first type of crime would come to be the inspiration for one of the names of the Nanjing Massacre: the Rape of Nanjing. For six weeks, the male Japanese soldiers moved around the city, doing whatever they pleased. A large number of them began to hunt women. They did not care how old a female was, with the age range for women and girls who were assaulted being between ten and sixty. The youngest known victim was only nine years old, while the oldest was in her seventies. Pregnant women were not safe either. Women were abducted and then raped by individuals or gang-raped by groups of soldiers who did not view them as people.

After being raped, many of the women were mutilated and killed, with children also falling victim to the barbaric actions of the invaders. Young children and infants who were considered in the way of soldiers who wanted to attack and rape their mothers or sisters were killed. Mothers and grandmothers who tried to prevent their younger generations from being taken were also killed.

While there were times when individual soldiers would act to rape women, more often than not, the invaders acted in small groups so that a woman would be assaulted repeatedly at one time and would likely face the same torture at a later date if they weren’t brutally mutilated and killed after being gang-raped. These soldiers would eventually have to talk about what they had done, and they would say that they didn’t want to kill the women after raping them but that they couldn’t leave behind any evidence. During the war tribunals, soldiers generally had an easier time recounting the looting and killing they had committed, but they were visibly uncomfortable talking about what they had done to the women before killing them.

Women were raped in front of each other, and at times, they were raped in front of their families. Some of the women who were abducted were taken to where the Japanese soldiers lodged and would be held overnight or, in some cases, for more than a week, where they would be repeatedly assaulted as soldiers came and went.

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