Describe The Event At Nanjing

On December 13, 1937, the Japanese Imperial army marched into the capital city of China, Nanjing. Many events occurred during the six week period. The event at Nanjing is called many names such as rape, massacre, battle, or invasion. It is still debated on the appropriate term to be used to describe the event at Nanjing. A massacre would be the most appropriate term for the next textbook for ninth graders to describe the event at Nanjing because the Japanese army murdered about 300,000 Chinese people whereas the amount of Japanese killed could not even compare. The event at Nanjing would be described as a massacre because the Japanese army killed thousands of Chinese. Many victims were beheaded, burned, bayoneted, or buried alive. In an article, it stated “Chinese soldiers were hunted down and killed by the thousands, and left in mass graves. Entire families were massacred, and even the elderly and infants were targeted for execution” This proves that the Japanese were attacking the
In an article it stated, “ A large number of Chinese soldiers had already been captured in the suburban areas before the Japanese entered the city. The rest of the Chinese soldiers scattered inside the city and changed into civilian clothes. A large number of young men who were arrested, together with those who had been captured earlier, were sent outside of the city to be massacred, from several thousand to tens of thousand at a time.” This shows the mass killing of the Chinese where they were defenseless. The Chinese were killed with great cruelty. The Japanese found different methods to kill the Chinese. They poured gasoline, buried them alive, striked off their heads, took out their heart, stabbed, drowned, cut open the abdomen, punched out their eyes, and many other horrific ways. This would show why the the event at Nanjing would be best described as a