United Nations
Definition of Genocide

The Transatlantic
Slave Trade

Genocide of the
Native Americans

The Herero
Genocide

The Armenian
Genocide

The Ukrainian Genocide/
The Great Famine

Rape
of Nanking

The
Holocaust

Mao Tse-tung's
Cultural Revolution

The Killing Fields: The
Cambodian Genocide

Genocide in Bosnia
and Herzegovina

The Rwandan
Genocide

The Genocide
in Darfur

 

 

 
     
 

                                        In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of the 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. After just four days of fighting, Japanese troops smashed into the city with orders issued to "kill all captives."  The terrible violence - citywide burnings, stabbings, drownings, rapes,

 
 
 

Rape of Nanking
Dec. 1937-Jan. 1938

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and thefts - did not cease for about six weeks. It is for the crimes against the women of Nanking that this tragedy is most notorious. The Japanese troops raped over 20,000 women, most of whom were murdered thereafter so they could never bear witness.

 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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