Rape of Nanking - Luke Newman

• December of 1937, Japanese soldier march into Nanking and kill 300,000 Chinese people
• they killed half of the population of the city
• After japan defeated china at the battle of Shanghai, 50,000 Japanese soldiers march into Nanking
• Although there were more Chinese soldiers in Nanking had plenty of ammunition, the Japanese still took them down.
• The first step was to take away any threat from the 90,000 Chinese soldiers that surrendered
• so the eliminated all the Chinese POWs
• Then they took women above the age of 70 and below the age of 8 and took them away to be sexually abused
• 20,000 women were gang rapped and would be killed after so they wouldn't bear witness to the crime
• Pregnant women were raped, then had their bellies slit open and the fetuses torn out
• Japanese forced Chinese men to rape their own daughters, sons to rape their mothers, and brothers their sisters, while the rest of the family was made to watch