Japanese Military Atrocities Analysis

After reading this paper, I feel upset because of Japanese military's atrocities. There was no human rights for Chinese when Japanese government conducted the military to Nanking, China 1937. As the article, the Japanese Army has thrown away a rare opportunity to gain the respect and confidence of the Chinese inhabitants and of foreign opinion there, because Japanese Army destroyed terribly and killed babarously citizens in Nanking, China. For example, in one building in the refugee zone 400 men were seized. They were marched off, tied in batches of fifty, between lines of riflemen and machine gunners, to the execution ground. It is so merciless! On the other killing of civilians, 200 men on the Bund was killed in ten minutes. The men were lined against a wall and shot. With Japanese army's inhuman characteristics, after killing these men, a number of Japanese, armed with pistols, trod nonchalantly around the crumpled bodies, pumping bullets into any that were still kicking. Even, these Japanese soliders invited navy men from the warships anchored off the Bund to view the scene. At the other mass executions, one slaughter a tank gun was turned on a group of more than 100 soldiers at a bomb shelter near the Ministry of Communications. I could not say something when reading this pharagraph. It is too inhuman! Since Japanese military …show more content…
As the page 1012 in the Patterns of World History textbook, military officers of modest rural origin, trained prior to World War I and without much general education, were unable or unwilling to comprehend the democracy, so they did not know the good way to influence in China instead of capturing and killing Chinese prisons by machine gunners. With Chinese, it is one of the most tragic military debacles in the history of modern warfare. In attempting to defend Nanking the Chinese allowed themselves to be surrounded and then systematically slaughtered as the New York Times reporter