The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as the Nanjing Massacre, was a notorious genocidal war crime committed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937.
The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, but the violence continued for the next six weeks until early February 1938.
During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed many atrocities such as rape, robbery, arson, and execution of prisoners of war and civilians.
Although the executions began under the pretext of exterminating Chinese soldiers masquerading as civilians, it is alleged that as the massacre gained momentum, large numbers of innocents were deliberately identified as enemy combatants and executed — or simply killed. Kill directly.
As the problem of rape and murder became more prominent, large numbers of women and children were also killed.
