Nanking Massacre and Comfort Women文案.docx

Nanking Massacre about sexual violence orientated women.[3]The?Nanking Massacre, also known as the?Rape of Nanking, was an episode of?/wiki/Mass_murdermass murder?and?/wiki/War_rapemass rape committed by?/wiki/JapanJapanese?troops against?/wiki/NanjingNanking?(current official spelling: Nanjing) during the?/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_WarSecond Sino-Japanese War. The massacre occurred during a six-week period starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese?/wiki/Battle_of_Nankingcaptured?Nanking, which was then the Chinese capital. During this period, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Chinese?/wiki/Civilianscivilians?and disarmed?/wiki/Combatantscombatants?were murdered by soldiers of the?/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_ArmyImperial Japanese Army.?Widespread rape and looting also occurred.[6]The?/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_EastInternational Military Tribunal for the Far East?estimated that 20,000 women were raped, including infants and the elderly.?A large portion of these rapes were systematized in a process where soldiers would search door-to-door for young girls, with many women taken captive and?/wiki/Gang_rapegang raped.?The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit /wiki/Mutilationmutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina. Young children were not exempt from these atrocities, and were cut open to allow Japanese soldiers to rape them.Here are also accounts of Japanese troops forcing families to commit acts of?/wiki/Incestincest.?Sons were forced to rape their mothers, fathers were forced to rape daughters. One pregnant woman who was gang-raped by Japanese soldiers gave birth only a few hours later; although the baby appeared to be physically unharmed (Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun).Monks who had declared a life of?/wiki/Celibacycelibacy?were also forced to rape women.[10]The Japanese Army established the comfort stations to pr