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The Nanking Massacre

The Rape of Nanking

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Chinese civilian survivors and people living in Nanking at that time give details of the Nanking Massacre.  Thousands of civilians were buried alive, used as targets for bayonet practice, and shot in large groups and thrown into the Yangtze River.  Women from the age of seven to over the age of seventy were gang raped. The community estimated that within the six weeks of the Massacre, twenty thousand women were raped, many of them murdered or mutilated.  Over 300,000 people were killed.

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Dr. Robert Wilson, a surgeon who was born and raised in Nanking and educated at Princeton and Harvard Medical School, testified that, "The hospital filled up and was kept full to overflowing”. The patients usually had bayonet or bullet wounds in them.  Many of the women patients had been sexually molested.

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