TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.

http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/njm-ch4.htm



Submitted April 14, 2015 at 02:20AM by Cmyers1980 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32hfxx/til_that_during_the_rape_of_nanking_the_japanese/