China celebrates the National Memorial Day every year on 13 December in memory of Nanjing massacre.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a visit to two countries. He is in Japan. Will go to China from there. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Japan will participate in the summit. The Prime Minister’s visit is considered very important amidst the tariff war of US President Donald Trump. However, there was a time when Japan was the biggest enemy for China, not only America. At the same time, Japan had given such a wound to China, which China has not forgotten even today.
That wound is known as Nanjing Genocide. This is also in discussion because The set of Chinese film “Dead to Rights” based on the 1937 Nanjing massacre is made in a park in Shanghai which has now been opened to the public.Let’s know the full story of the massacre carried out by Japan in Nanjing.
Japan attacked China
Japan supported the Allies in the First World War. However, after this he started feeling that he could expand his empire and under this policy he took a fierce attitude. His enmity was going on with China. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity, Japan attacked China two years before the Second World War.
The year was 1937. This was Japan’s second major attack on China. Earlier, after a blast at a railway station occupied by Japan, Japan attacked Manchuria of China in 1931. In this attack, China had to face a tremendous defeat and a large part of Manchuria was captured by Japan. Due to this, Japan was freshly elevated.
After the second attack on China, the Japanese army first blew up in Shanghai. Murder-e-man created and won easily. After this, Japan’s army started moving forward. At the time of this attack, China’s capital Nanjing (Nationalist was the capital of China). After Japan’s possession of Shanghai, his army moved forward, the then Chinese leader Chiang Kai Shek left the capital and made Chongking located in the southwest of China as its capital.
In China, every year on 13 December, tributes are paid to the martyrs of Nanjing massacre. Photo: Getty Images
Chinese leader had put the army in his security
The Japanese army was considered so dreaded at that time and the then leader of China, Chiang Kai Shake, was so in awe that he had almost removed the entire army from the city of Nanjing. He had completed the entire army of the entire army only under the protection of himself and his own close ones.
In Nanjing, only those soldiers were left who trained army soldiers. When the army of Japan reached close to Nanjing, the remaining soldiers who trained also ran upside down. Another important reason for this is that Japan had allowed its dreaded army to do anything not only with the soldiers of China, but to the common people. This increased the morale of the Japanese army even more.
More than 3 lakh people died in Nanjing massacre. Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group Via Getty Images
All limits of barbarity in Nanjing cross
The date was 13 December 1937. Japan’s army entered Nanjing city. Then this army was named the Central China Front Army and the General Matsui Ivan was leading it. In his command, the Japanese army killed thousands of Japanese soldiers in Nanjing city. Chinese soldiers collectively buried in graves. Despite this, the barbarity of Japanese soldiers did not stop. His vandalism was not limited to soldiers only. Japanese soldiers crossed all limits of cruelty with the common people of Nanjing. People of thousands of families were beheaded. Women and children raped. The slaughter that started on 13 December continued for about six weeks.
Murder of more than three lakh people
The massacre, which started on 13 December 1937, lasted till March 1938. During this six -week massacre, Japanese soldiers converted the city of Nanjing into a crematorium. Until months after this attack, there were piles of dead bodies in the streets of Nanjing city. Japanese soldiers set fire to all the houses of the city.
According to an estimate, in this massacre of Japan, its soldiers killed more than three lakh people of China. Not only were soldiers, a large number of common citizens were also involved. An estimated 80 thousand women and children were black.
During the entire incident, Japanese soldiers used to kill and eat captive soldiers. Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group Via Getty Images
Japanese soldiers used to kill humans
Prior to the second attack on China, the terrible stories of the Japanese army had spread. The Japanese army was quite infamous. It is said that the Japanese soldiers used to kill and eat the captive soldiers. These soldiers used to use these soldiers in place of effigy to practice target.
The second world war began in the era of China-Japan War. Japan was against the Allies in this war. Due to this, the US attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a atomic bomb and had to surrender Japan. Due to this, China had returned its cities like Manchuria and Nanjing, but the barbarity in Nanjing has not forgotten even today. That is why National Mourning Day is celebrated every year on 13 December every year in China.
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