The Japanese bury Chinese prisoners of war alive. Sino-Japanese War, 1937
The Japanese bury Chinese prisoners of war alive. Sino-Japanese War, 1937
75 years ago, on Dec. 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of the Chinese republic led by Chiang Kai-shek and went on a six-week campaign of carnage and slaughter that would be forever remembered as the “Rape of Nanjing.” Reports document widespread rape and the indiscriminate killing of civilians; some death tolls estimate over a quarter of a million people were killed. The incident, though, still rankles Sino-Japanese relations. Japanese nationalists contend that the death tolls are inflated and the majority killed were resisting Japanese occupation. To this day, pages in Japanese school history textbooks can incite heated protests on the streets in China. Then and now, the Nanjing massacre remains one of the darkest events of the last century.—Ishaan Tharoor
Here is shown Chinese prisoners about to be buried alive by Japanese soldiers. Overall, in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II into which it was merged, the Japanese murdered almost 4,000,000 Chinese and over 2,000,000 others--about 6,000,000 in total. Of these, about 3,600,000 were massacres and atrocities of the kind shown here and in subsequent photos. For documentation, see China's Bloody Century, Death By Government and Statistics of Democide. Source: "Nanking organization": WWW Memorial to Commemorate the Victims of the Rape of Nanking. Although presumably all the photos on this site were taken during the Rape of Nanking, I believe some of them, such as the photo here, may have been taken elsewhere.
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