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}                                     THERE I WAS - NANKING\par}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28 Authors note
- this is the first of a planned series similar to the true series. Each one will
 be based on historical happenings as seen by a viewer that can go anywhere and 
watch whatever interests him. They are perhaps somewhat different that my other 
work in that I attempt to open parts of history that have been largely closed till
 lately. This stuff happened. It is not fiction even if my characters are.  \par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28 The rape 
of Nanking was perhaps one of the worse behaviors by an organized army in modern
 history. Nothing was forbidden to the victorious troops except for perhaps civilized
 behavior. Proof that it was   condoned at the highest level is the fact that those
 non native peoples [ missionaries, businessmen, reporters, and the like] were left
 strictly alone. The solders even used white owned drug stores to develop the pictures
 they took of the horrors. \par}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28     We knew
 the troops would be here soon. With the defenders having thrown down their arms
 and run for their lives there was nothing to stop the jap army. Within a few hours
 we were treated to an ad hoc parade of military might as the victors took control
. Within a couple of days the city was securely under control and all resistance
 crushed. Then something happened. I do not know if orders were given or if the 
men were told that anything was allowed or what really happened but for some reason
 all control seemed to evaporate.  At first I thought it was just the usual bad 
actors any army has but then it was clear that something very different was going
 on. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28     It started
 with rapes and other sexual assaults but quickly became more that that. After the
 first few most of the victims were killed. We heard this was because without a 
victim testifying  the army would not prosecute. Weather or not this was true I 
never found out but killing the victim was standard throughout the city.  The first
 rape I witnessed was a mother daughter pair. They were stripped and tied into office
 chairs with their arms tied around the back and their legs tied to the chair arms
. This left them in a position where they could be taken in either hole by any man
 that knelt in front of them. The situation got worse when one enterprising man 
discovered that he could straddle the chair and receive oral sex at the same time
 a buddy was raping the woman. From then on both of them were being used by two 
at once most of the time. After a few hours the girl died from her treatment. The
 mother lasted a while longer but in the end she was killed by blows from a rifle
 butt to her head. They were just left there. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28     It soon
 became clear that there were some rules in force. No white people were bothered
 unless they did something clearly out of line. Since I ran a camera shop I was 
quite busy. It seemed that every one of these sons of heaven had a camera and all
 of them wanted their trophy photos developed. Needless to say I saw things that
 still bother me. As I traveled throughout the city I saw that rape was the least
 of the crimes being committed.  Down by the river I watched as men tossed babies
 into the air and tried to catch them on their bayonet points. Officers had their
 own version of the game. They would try to cut the small bodies in half with their
 swords. Chinese men and boys were forced to rape their mothers, daughters, and 
sisters  for the pleasure of watching soldiers. When they could no longer perform
 they were castrated and killed. Women were being forced to beg for children\u8217
\'92s lives and  after being used in payment for those lives watching them be killed
 anyway. Any female between the ages of birth and death was apt to be raped and 
sodomized. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28     Men faired
 little better. They were either killed out of hand or worked to death as slaves
. Many died from being used for bayonet practice. I saw officers betting on how 
many men they could decapitate within some time limit or as part of a race between
 two or more officers to see who could kill the most. I began to see more woman\u8217
\'92s bodies with sticks or other objects stuck into the holes between their legs
 as well as signs of extensive torture. Simple rape and killing was not enough any
 longer.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28     The sight
 of naked women alive and dead no longer attracted any comment. We  grew used to
 seeing  men tied to poles with many bayonet wounds in their bodies. Babies with
 their heads smashed against curbs became just part of the city life. There were
 always unattached heads rolling about in the gutters.  The sounds of rape and death
, screams and cries for mercy, and the sudden end of one voice failed to register
. It was a terrible time. A time and place filled with actions that I thought had
 been lost in the dim passages of history. Alas I was wrong. The Japanese high command
 had allowed those dark times to resurface and we had to learn to cope with them
 and survive. My soul is forever stained.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28     I witnessed
 the rape and killing of one young girl that still stands out in my mind among all
 the horrors I saw. I don\u8217\'92t know if it was the numbers or what but I never
 forgot it. She was perhaps twelve or so. She had been out looking for food by the
 bag she carried. Caught by a large group of soldiers she was pushed and slapped
 around for a while as an even larger number of men gathered. Finally she fell and
 was unable to get up fast enough and the rapes started. A line formed at her legs
 and soon went around the corner. After a large number of men had used her there
 was a puddle of semen on the ground between her legs. One man turned her over so
 he could sodomize her and from then on she was used in both wholes. It sounds weird
 but for some reason I felt compelled to keep track of the numbers involved. I counted
 one hundred and seventeen men having their way with her and of those about forty
 sodomized her with some men doing both. At last all the men were satisfied and 
she was left lying in the street. I thought she must be dead but I was wrong. One
 or two of the men involved noticed it too and decided to do something about. They
 forced some kind of grenade into her cunt and fired the timer. Five seconds later
 fire burst from her crotch as the incendiary bomb exploded inside her. She was 
still able to scream and she did so in such a manner as I had never heard before
. It took at least four of five minutes before the flames stilled her and she screamed
 the whole time. Awful just awful\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28     After
 a while the whole city stank of rotting bodies and the river was full of floating
 ones. I always thought the whole thing ended because of the lack of victims and
 the satiation of the troops. There had to be several hundred thousand people killed
. Most one at a time after the fighting was over. Bloodlust run amuck and uncontrolled
. I find myself reliving the horrors in my dreams and I pray that someday those 
responsible  will be brought to justice so the murdered babies can find peace. \par
}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs20\kerning28 Second author
\u8217\'92s note- Even today most of the Japanese people do not know about the Nanking
 rape and  government has refused to make any apologies or offer any explanation
. To the best of my knowledge those responsible were never brought to justice. }}