The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Raping of Nanking, was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army. The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks.
Japanese officials lied about civilian death figures and still refuse to reveal them properly today. During the occupation of Nanking, the Japanese Army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson, and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. The executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians. A large number of women and children were also killed. Most bodies were bound with their hands tied behind their backs.
The total number of civilians and prisoners of war murdered in Nanking and its vicinity during the first six weeks of the Japanese occupation was over 200,000. These figures do not take into account those persons whose bodies were destroyed by burning or by throwing them into the Yangtze River. In addition to the number of victims, some Japanese nationalists have even disputed whether the atrocities ever happened even though the Japanese government has acknowledged that the incident did occur.
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