Reply #74: rating system for atrocities? [View All]

[twenty4blackbirds]

... there oughn't be a 'rating' system for atrocities before people are 'outraged'.

The PRC government isn't very amusing. Neither is the fact of Japan & Japanese goverment consistently refusing to deliver an apology for the Rape of Nanking. http://www.tribo.org/nanking/
(Please correct me if I'm wrong, as it's not nice to walk around holding the wrong history in my head.)

I tried to read the book, but found it too harrowing - it explained a phrase I'd heard in my childhood. The phrase makes me bilious*.

I'm unsure Japan refusing to apologise for wartime atrocities is comparable to the Jewish Holocaust nay-sayers. I'm not qualified for that judgement. Both make me queasy.

Not only Chinese women, but European women and Korean women were forced to be 'comfort' women to the Japanese army during their conquest in World War II. Please correct me if you have heard of Japan apologising for that.


Footnote:
* "pi-pi kan" translating to "I want a look" - a phrase a Japanese soldier would say. A fleeing Chinese woman would be chased, pinned down, her trousers pulled down, then raped by the group of Japanese soldiers, then killed with a bullet to her head. Variation: after the rape she'd flee, and be shot by the group of Japanese soldiers. The implications of the rape is worse than I can describe in a simple post.


(de-lurking because this discussion seemed to be on the road to trivialising the badness of the bad actions of bad people)
(Edited for spelling)