r/awfuleverything

(I won't put picture of the massacre itself), as they are gruesome enough to get me insta ban).

Japanese force went to door to door, taking every girl/women they could find. Anyone trying to intervene was shot.

"Women suffered most. No matter how young or old, they all could not escape the fate of being raped. We sent out coal trucks to the city streets and villages to seize a lot of women. And then each of them was allocated to fifteen to twenty soldiers for sexual intercourse and abuse. After raping we would also kill them" (witnessing of a Japanese soldier).

The killing part was to avoid potential later responsability, once the dust would go down.

The abuses include

- Rape with Bayonet, sticks,...

- Eventration of pregnant women

- (at least) one girl was raped with a beer bottle before getting shot

- Baby killed in front of their mother before soldiers raped her

- Family (son with mother, daughter with father, siblings) were forced to have sex

Another japanese soldier declared

"Afterwards, rape and even murder would often follow: "We took turns raping them. It would be all right if we only raped them. I shouldn't say all right. But we always stabbed and killed them. Because dead bodies don't talk."

- A chinese teenager (who survived) declared having been chained naked in a barrack with an hundred of soldiers and raped daily by them.

A bunch of boy/men were raped too (but the number is difficult to estimate)

The reasons assumed for such a behavior of Japanese troops were a mix of despise for the chinese, an overpresent bullying system inside the army turning the base soldier as a bully too, and the frustration coming from a difficult siege.

In addition to the rape, a lot of murder were done (2 japanese soldiers even made a competition about who could cut as much as civil head as possible). between 100 and 200.000 civilian were killed.

https://preview.redd.it/ehy8djyv6uvg1.png?width=503&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c968a42ad7399fbdaa00b0c67436601653b5dc7

what does this even mean?