Nikolina JovanovicGlobal Lit AccelDudekApril 4, 2014Rape of NankingIn late 1937, the Japanese army brutally murdered and assaulted civilians in Nanking, China, for six weeks. This event in history was one of the most horrific and also one that is rarely talked about or taught in school. This part of history was known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese looked down on the Chinese people, believing them to be the lowest race on the planet. China had the advantage of being a larger country, and as such, Japan always had something to fear. This war was sparked by many aspects, but one of the most important was the fact that China attempted to invade Japan's islands, but never succeeded. This gave Japan another reason to want to go to war and prove to China that they are superior to them. In the 1940s, Japan was considered more powerful than China. They feel superior to China because they have conquered where China had not succeeded. China and the Kuomintang were at war, but later Japan won. “Surviving Japanese veterans say the military officially banned the rape of enemy women,” says Iris Chang. But "military policy prohibiting rape only encouraged soldiers to then kill their victims." This was one of the many ways in which women, children and men were massacred. Women were terrorized throughout the city and brutally raped. Children were not safe from these horrific acts. The Japanese soldiers considered every Chinese person to be an animal and to them it would not be like killing a human because they were subhuman. Pregnant women were attacked just as harshly, if not more brutally, than others. The soldiers stabbed their stomachs and...... middle of paper...... "Japanese troops attacked women, raping and killing them in the streets in broad daylight, including young people nine-year-old girls, women aged 76, as well as pregnant women (student source) Pregnant women were not safe from such horrible acts. They took spears and stabbed the pregnant women. in the womb while cutting it open and removed the unborn fetuses from their mothers I watched the movie Rape of Nanking and was saddened to see what the Chinese people had to endure. The articles are very informative. , but watching them with your own eyes gives you a different perspective on the problem. In the film, it showed all the brutal ways they killed men and women, as well as how they raped women of all ages. looking at him, it forces you to feel what they are feeling right now Almost as if you were there, which is terrifying..