The Nanjing Massacre: Scenes from a Hideous Slaughter 75 Years Ago

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The Nanjing Massacre: Scenes from a Hideous Slaughter 75 Years Ago

南京大屠殺：75年前慘不忍睹的影像

Dec. 13, 2012

1937年12月，日本佔領南京市

75 years ago, on Dec. 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of the Chinese republic led by Chiang Kai-shek and went on a six-week campaign of carnage and slaughter that would be forever remembered as the “Rape of Nanjing.” Reports document widespread rape and the indiscriminate killing of civilians; some death tolls estimate over a quarter of a million people were killed. The incident, though, still rankles Sino-Japanese relations. Japanese nationalists contend that the death tolls are inflated and the majority killed were resisting Japanese occupation. To this day, pages in Japanese school history textbooks can incite heated protests on the streets in China. Then and now, the Nanjing massacre remains one of the darkest events of the last century.—Ishaan Tharoor

75年前，也就是1937年的12月3日，日本軍隊進攻南京市。南京市原為蔣介石領導的中華民國首都，但日本佔領後的六週，屠殺與濫殺不斷上演，最後演變為無法忘懷的「南京大屠殺」。資料記載顯示，當時隨處都有強暴與不分男女老幼的濫殺事件；死亡人數據估超過25萬人。然而這起事件產生的悲憤，仍讓中日關係緊繃。日本愛國份子辯稱，南京事件的死亡人數遭到誇大，而且被殺害的民眾多為抵抗軍隊在先。但直到今日，日本學校的歷史課本依舊引起中國人民的憤慨抗議。不論是過去還是現在，南京大屠殺仍是上個世紀最黑暗的悲劇之一。

作者為TIME雜誌的專欄作家，伊山‧塔羅

1937年，日本軍隊趾高氣昂舉起來福槍，即將攻進南京市

1938年1月，日本軍隊進入南京市，行經中山門

日軍強行進入南京時，發現此處已成廢墟。後面煙霧為中國人放火所產生的