Editing Rape of Nanking (section)

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|image=Nanking_bodies_1937.jpg|thumb|284px|The corpses of massacre victims on the shore of the Qinhuai River with a Japanese soldier standing nearby.
|perpetrator = [[Imperial Japan|Japanese Imperial Army]]
|date = December 13, 1937 - January 30, 1938
|location = Nanjing, China
|motive = Anti-Chinese sentiment<br>
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Mass [[murder]]<br>
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{{Quote|Let me recount some instances occurring in the last two days. Last night the house of one of the Chinese staff members of the university was broken into and two of the women, his relatives, were raped. Two girls, about 16, were raped to death in one of the refugee camps. In the University Middle School where there are 8,000 people the Japs came in ten times last night, over the wall, stole food, clothing, and raped until they were satisfied. They bayoneted one little boy of eight who [had] five bayonet wounds including one that penetrated his stomach, a portion of omentum was outside the abdomen. I think he will live.|Robert O. Wilson on the Rape of Nanking}}

'''The Nanjing Massacre''', also known as the '''Nanking Massacre''' or the '''Rape of Nanking''', was a series of atrocities instigated by [[Imperial Japan]]ese troops under the command of [[Iwane Matsui]] against citizens in Nanking, the then capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The event started on December 1937 and ended on January 1938, and led to the deaths of 50,000 to 300,000 people. It is considered to be one of the most heinous acts of mass murder ever perpetrated.

The massacre was so horrific that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe John Rabe], a German businessman and a staunch member of the [[Nazi Party]], teamed up with other foreigners to establish a "Safety Zone", where they could attempt to keep civilians safe. As Rabe wrote in his diary, he and the other Europeans and Americans lived in constant fear of the Japanese despite being theoretically safe. Furthermore, [[Mao Zedong]] was so disgusted by the incident, that he refused to speak of the horrendous atrocity for the rest of his life.

An article published in the journal ''Sociological Theory'' has described the massacre as a [[genocide]], given the fact that residents were still slaughtered ''en masse'' during the aftermath, despite the successful and certain outcome in battle.

[[Hisao Tani]] was the main instigator of all atrocities and was accused of raping 20 women.