After the Marco Polo incident, the Japanese then spread out in China soon reaching Nanjing. To protect the Chinese citizens from being killed brutally, the International Safety Zones Community built a safety zone. Not long after it was built more than 200,000 people move into it. Thanks to the International Safety Zones Community’s effort, this left a legacy in the Chinese history in standing up to the Japanese.
Before the Massacre started, the Japanese first have to settle in China. Japan wanted access to more resources as well as land and so they conquered Manchuria. Manchuria was counted as a puppet state due to it’s weak emperor who follows the Japanese’s every command." In less than half a century Japan has taken over Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria. More recently Japanese aggression has been …show more content…
In Nanking soldiers act act recklessly like barbarics and murder innocents. As mention before, the League of Nation can’t send in armies to kick out the Japanese. The Communist and Nationalist are battling it out, so that leaves the Japanese fearless to conquer and take whatever they want without remorse. So the Japanese sent many of their soldiers into Nanking. In Nanking the soldiers were murdering and killing many citizens which leads us to call this the Nanking Massacre. Women being raped was as bad as people being killed in Nanking, due to the numbers of cases about rape each day. Female, doesn’t matter the age, were being raped, sometimes raped many times in a row. Males and Chinese ex- soldiers were taken as for bayonet practice or to be executed. Many Japanese use the excuse of finding ex-soldiers to get into the Nanking Safety Zone. A simple callus on the hand was death. “Calluses on hands are proof that the man was a soldier, a sure death warrant.“ (Fitch 9) Thus to protect these innocent civilian the International Safety Zone Committee was
Before the Massacre started, the Japanese first have to settle in China. Japan wanted access to more resources as well as land and so they conquered Manchuria. Manchuria was counted as a puppet state due to it’s weak emperor who follows the Japanese’s every command." In less than half a century Japan has taken over Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria. More recently Japanese aggression has been …show more content…
In Nanking soldiers act act recklessly like barbarics and murder innocents. As mention before, the League of Nation can’t send in armies to kick out the Japanese. The Communist and Nationalist are battling it out, so that leaves the Japanese fearless to conquer and take whatever they want without remorse. So the Japanese sent many of their soldiers into Nanking. In Nanking the soldiers were murdering and killing many citizens which leads us to call this the Nanking Massacre. Women being raped was as bad as people being killed in Nanking, due to the numbers of cases about rape each day. Female, doesn’t matter the age, were being raped, sometimes raped many times in a row. Males and Chinese ex- soldiers were taken as for bayonet practice or to be executed. Many Japanese use the excuse of finding ex-soldiers to get into the Nanking Safety Zone. A simple callus on the hand was death. “Calluses on hands are proof that the man was a soldier, a sure death warrant.“ (Fitch 9) Thus to protect these innocent civilian the International Safety Zone Committee was