are visible even in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the events of the 1930's and 40's such as the Holocaust, The Rape of Nanking, and African American Slavery were really instrumental in the creation of the document. The Age of Enlightenment, for instance, was an intellectual and scientific movement in 18th century Europe characterized…
justify what causes and motivates perpetrators of genocides to engage in the atrocities . Other scholars have equally rejected as unacceptable justifications of genocide that attribute its cause to single event or trigger . This is the same for the Nanking Genocide, as it cannot be attributed…
Also known as the, “Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking” (History), was the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers, women, and children by the Imperial Japanese Army. The former capital of Nationalist China as well as several empires such as the Ming and Qing Dynasties…
The Rape of Nanking was concealed by the best efforts of the Japanese government during the time by intentionally spreading false estimations of the amount of people killed. In addition to the disinformation spread, The Japanese were also unwelcoming to foreign journalists…
The actual invasion of Nanking was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937. The Japanese expected an easy victory, but the Chinese troops were resilient and their stubborn resistance upset Japan’s timetable with the battle dragging on from summer to late fall. This angered the Japanese who had bragged they could conquer all of China in just three months and gave them a thirst for revenge which was to follow at Nanking. After defeating the Chinese troops…
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…
An atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a historical event that will forever remain among the most controversial events in modern history. August 6th, 1945 is the day that the United States of America used an epic nuclear bombarding attack against Japan in Hiroshima. The attack flattened Hiroshima city and a huge number of the Japanese people died in that horrible event. Before the Japanese could comprehend what had happened, the US made another massive attack on Nagasaki. These were the…
utilized characteristics of totalitarianism such as control of information, persecution, and ideology, which contributed to atrocities including the Rape of Nanking, concentration camps, and the Bataan Death March. During World War II, Japan’s totalitarian trait of control of information contributed to the war atrocity of the Rape of Nanking. Control of information is the indoctrination of the state’s ideology through censorship, control over education and media, and the use and spread of…
pieces in the entire Chinese Army. (“Chinese Nationalist Army”) Rape of Nanking: The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians are never permissible targets of war, and every effort must be taken to avoid killing civilians. The deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target. Rape of Nanking (December 1937) Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China, fell to Japan’s military on…
The attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy on the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii prompted the United States to join World War II and completely destroyed the already tenuous relationship between Japan and the United States. The attack on Pearl Harbor was caused by the failing relationship that came to fruition during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The only possible defense for the Japanese attack comes from a fervent Japanese imperialist. The Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th, 1941 was…