The Rape of Nanjing
By by Simon Watts/BBC
The Rape of Nanjing
By by Simon Watts/BBC
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More than 70 years ago, during the Sino-Japanese war, Japan’s army captured the former Chinese capital of Nanjing. Troops then embarked on rape and murder on a massive scale.
The BBC program Witness provides a first-hand account of those tragic events. Simon Watts reports of what is known in China as “The Rape of Nanjing.”