Rape of Nanking

"Let me recount some instances occurring in the last two days. Last night the house of one of the Chinese staff members of the university was broken into and two of the women, his relatives, were raped. Two girls, about 16, were raped to death in one of the refugee camps. In the University Middle School where there are 8,000 people the Japs came in ten times last night, over the wall, stole food, clothing, and raped until they were satisfied. They bayoneted one little boy of eight who [had] five bayonet wounds including one that penetrated his stomach, a portion of omentum was outside the abdomen. I think he will live"

- Robert O. Wilson on the Rape of Nanking The Rape of Nanking, also known as the Nanking Massacre, was a series of atrocities instigated by the Japanese Empire against citizens in Nanking, the then capital of the Republic of China. The event started on December 1937 and ended on January 1938, and led to the deaths of 50,000 to 300,000 people.

List of Atrocities

 * A contest was held between two soldiers on who could kill more people. The final tally was 106-105.
 * Women, ranging from children to the elderly, were systematically gang-raped by Japanese soldiers, who went from door to door. Once women were raped, they would be mutilated in a gruesome fashion, using sticks of bamboo or bayonets to penetrate their vagina. Children were not excluded from this practice.
 * Japanese soldiers forced mothers to rape their sons, and fathers to rape their daughters.
 * Anyone in the city who was affiliated with the Chinese military was systematically executed. They would be beheaded, machine-gunned, impaled, drowned, buried alive, and their bodies were disposed out on the streets in massive heaps if they weren't burned.
 * Citizens would be shot and left dying on the road; some were intentionally thrown into the Yangtze River.