Ironclad Evidence of the Nanjing Massacre

Author: Lin Changsheng
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Publishing Date: 2005-06-01
Features: To promote the confession of the perpetrator and seek reconciliation, it is necessary for people to understand the truth of what happened in Nanjing. We can only forgive what we have learned, and without understanding, reconciliation is impossible. — Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Today’s China is no longer the China that could be bullied and trampled upon. However, revisiting this cruelty will strengthen and deepen the resilience of our descendants’ pure and fragile hearts, as if adding another layer of steel to an iron blade. In the future, whether history will repeat itself or not, we hope they will all be mentally prepared. Thus, when the sudden brutality of war strikes, perhaps the humiliation will not be repeated. — Lei Shuyan, a renowned contemporary Chinese poet and writer.
68 years ago, the Japanese army of aggression committed the Nanjing Massacre, killing more than 300,000 captured Chinese soldiers and civilians. While carrying out the planned and organized massacre, the Japanese also raged with rape, looting, burning, and destruction, inflicting unimaginable suffering on the people of Nanjing.
“As a survivor, I do not wish to dwell on the past or recall those horrifying scenes. But the tree wants to be still, yet the wind will not stop. In Japan, there are many who attempt to deny the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre. They viciously attack the established conclusion about the Nanjing Massacre, just as the Japanese aggressors ignited war on Chinese soil years ago. I will fight to the end.”
This is a true record of the bloody atrocities committed by the Japanese army of aggression, presenting a strong accusation against the Japanese forces based on the author’s personal experiences. What is even more moving is that this extensive 200,000-word work was written over a decade by an 82-year-old — Lin Changsheng.