The Nanjing Safety Zone International Committee was an autonomous organization under the leadership of 15 foreigners, the members of which was 7 Americans, 4 Englishmen, 3 Germans, and 1 Dane.

The Committee published 61 letters to the Japanese, US, English, German embassies during the period from December 13, 1937, when the Japanese army entered the city, to February 9, 1938.

The members of the committee minutely recorded the situations with the Zone centering around the misdemeanors of Japanese, security, food and claims to the Japanese army.

Those letters can be deemed as reliable sources because providing false information to embassies means to lose their social status, which would cause enormous damage to the committee.

Those letters included three references to the population of the Zone to the effect that the total population of the refugees within the Zone is 200 thousand.

The massacre is said to have lasted 6 weeks from the very day of Japanese Army's entrance into the city, so it began on December 13, 1937 and ended on January 24, 1938.

According to the record by the committee, on January 26 of the next year, it conducted a census of population for preparing the food provision to the refugees, which revealed that the population increased to 250 thousand.

If we follow the account of the Chinese govt, the demographic change of Nanjing should be as follows:

Population before the massacre 200,000
No. of people murdered 300,000
Population 2 days after the massacre 250,000

The population of minus 100,000 is impossible, so let us assume that the number of the people of the city after the massacre became zero.

Then tell us what has made 250,000 people want to come into the city, where the gruesome and gory mass murder and rapes had occurred against civilians just 2 days before?

There are some pictures showing that Chinese children are playing with Japanese soldiers during the period of the incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tb7QSzSnug

Tell me what has made them want to come to the mass murderers right in the middle of the action?

2015年3月17日