The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang,
1997, Excerpts
Some of the most sordid instances of sexual torture involved
the degradation of entire families. The Japanese drew sadistic pleasure in
forcing Chinese men to commit incest – fathers to rape their own daughters,
brothers their sisters, sons their mothers as other family members watched. A
fifteen year old Chinese girl’s family was murdered before her eyes. The
Japanese first killed her brother, whom they wrongly accused of being a Chinese
soldier, then her brother’s wife and her older sister because they both
resisted rape, and finally her mother and father, who knelt on the floor
begging the Japanese to spare the lives of their children. Before they died
under the threats of Japanese bayonets, their last words urged the young girl
to do whatever the enemy soldiers wanted from her.
The girl fainted. She revived to find herself naked on the
floor in a strange locked room. Someone had raped her while she had been
unconscious. Her clothes had been taken from her, as they had been taken from
other girls in the building. For a month and a half the fifteen-year-old was
raped two to three times a day. Eventually she became so diseased the Japanese
left her alone. That girl was considered fortunate. Many other girls, tied
naked to chairs, beds, or poles as permanent fixtures for rape, did not survive
such treatment. An eleven-year-old girl died after she was raped continuously
for two days.
Scene from City of Life and Death
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