Rape of Nanking and Manila

The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, because many local women were raped, was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing (historically known as Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.

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The Rape of Manila came towards the end of the war. The Japanese atrocities were just as worse than those that occured in China years earlier. Filipina girls forced into to roles called Comfort Women. "Its civilian population have been raped and burned, starved and murdered, its women mutilated, its babies bayoneted."

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I urge all to watch the newly released movie, Nanking. It's disturbing to say the least but accurate based upon my own studies on the subject. We need to continue to raise the consciousness of everyone that these atrocities happened so that we do not forget the lessons of history and damn ourselves by repeating them.