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Dec 13, 1937:
The Rape of Nanking
During the Sino-Japanese War, Nanking, the capital of China,
falls to Japanese forces, and the Chinese government flees to
Hankow, further inland along the Yangtze River.
To break the spirit of Chinese resistance, Japanese General
Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much
of the city was burned, and Japanese troops launched a campaign
of atrocities against civilians. In what became known as the
"Rape of Nanking," the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000
male "war prisoners," massacred an additional 50,000 male
civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages,
many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process.
Shortly after the end of World War II, Matsui was found guilty of
war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far
East and executed.
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