The Cost

The cost of this genocide is considered by many scholars to be worse than the Holocaust. “ The Japanese Imperial Army marched into Chinas capital city Nanking and proceeded to murder around 300,000 out 600,000(7200 a day) civilians and soldiers” (Chang). The Japanese had inflicted utmost pain and suffering upon the prisoners of war to try and toughen the soldiers up for future battles.



Fig.7- a Burial site where thousands
of innocent people were buried

 “Some prisoners of war were simply just mowed down to death by machine gun firing will others were tied up, showered in gas and burned alive” ( Chang). Women were no exception to this genocide. More than 20 thousand females (some estimate it to be as high as 80,000) were gang raped by Japanese soldiers and then were proceeded to be killed by bayonets or shot to death. Pregnant women were not left out either; in some instances the Japanese soldiers would rape the women then cut open their stomachs and take the fetus out 

Fig.8- Japanese Soldier killing
a person by gun

 
 “Sometimes, after storming into a house and encountering a whole family, the Japanese forced Chinese men to rape their own daughters, sons to rape their mothers, and brothers and sisters, while the rest of the family was made to watch” (Chang). Those that were not killed in the city were taken to the out of the city and they were forced to build their own graves (large rectangular pits that would be consumed with corpses from the killing games the Japanese held among themselves).



Fig.10- Japanese soldier Looking
over the Pit of dead bodies



Fig.9- Rows of innocent human heads lined up against the wall

To pacify the population during the long occupation, highly addictive narcotics, including heroin and opium, were distributed by Japanese soldiers to the people of Nanking, regardless of age. An estimated 50,000 persons became addicted to heroin while many others lost themselves in the cities opium dens” (Chang).



Fig.11- Heroin the drug Japanese
Soldiers gave civilians