Nanjing 37 | Rape of Nanking China 1937 Massacre

LOPKERJO

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Music by Yuanji Chen (FANTASTIC! BRAVO!)
Lyrics by John Lopker

In late 1937, over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people—including both soldiers and civilians—in the Chinese city of Nanjing (or Nanking). The horrific events are known as the Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing, as tens of thousands of women and girls were sexually assaulted. Nanjing, then the capital of Nationalist China, was left in ruins, and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks.

The destruction of Nanjing—which had been the capital of the Nationalist Chinese from 1928 to 1937—was ordered by Matsui Iwane, commanding general of the Japanese Central China Front Army that captured the city. Over the next several weeks, Japanese soldiers carried out Matsui’s orders, perpetrating numerous mass executions and tens of thousands of rapes. The army looted and burned the surrounding towns and the city, destroying more than a third of the buildings. In 1940 the Japanese made Nanjing the capital of their Chinese puppet government headed by Wang Ching-wei (Wang Jingwei). Shortly after the end of World War II, Matsui and Tani Hisao, a lieutenant general who had personally participated in acts of murder and rape, were found guilty of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and were executed.

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Nanjing 37, what happened then?
300,000, could it happen again?
They came by boot, they came by plane
Dropping bombs without aim
With lust for death and innocent flesh
Unsatisfied with mere success

Nanjing 37, what happened then?
300,000, could it happen again?
The river ran red with Chinese blood
Severed heads and bodies would thud
Against the rocks under smoky skies
We begged for mercy from empty eyes

Nanjing 37, what happened then?
300,000, could it happen again?
They killed for sport, they killed for fun
Buried us alive in the rising sun
Swinging their swords and bayonets
They played their games and placed their bets

They took our men of fighting age
Lined them up on a secret stage
Hundreds of men at a time
Executed line by line

Nanjing 37, what happened then?
300,000, could it happen again?
They raped our women, they raped our girls
The stench of death around them swirled
Raped our sisters, raped our daughters
Dragged our mothers and babies to slaughter

Nanjing 37, what happened then?
300,000, will happen again?

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