Crimes against humanity is a deliberate act resulting in a large number of human suffering or death. Incidents like this have happened many times in this world and are still happening today. Since the beginning of these crimes there has been controversy on whether or not other countries should intervene in other countries affairs when it comes to crimes against humanity. The main reason is protecting other countries sovereignty. They don’t want to take over their right to self determination and their right to govern themselves and make their own decisions. However the other side to it is that when it gets to the point of human suffering and death and becomes a crime against humanity countries should intervene and save civilians lives. Countries should not be allowed to make their own decisions after a crime against humanity has started. My position on this issue is that when a crime against humanity has begun countries and the UN should intervene and put a stop to it. In 1937 300,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and almost 80,000 women were sexually assaulted, this was the Nanking massacre. The Japanese just defeated the Chinese in a bloody battle and now they were going after the capital Nanking. The leader of China was fearful of the Japanese as they were a strong army so he ordered the army to flee and left the untrained army. The Japanese quickly took over and tore the people and city to ruins. The Japanese saw the Chinese surrender as cowardice and an
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Nanking, China. They killed 300,00 out of the 600,000 people in China’s capital city. The six-week rampage by the Japanese is now known as the Rape of Nanking and the single worst atrocity during WWII era in either the European or Pacific theaters of the war.
Railroads, “the great money-maker of the age” were a major part of the political, economic, and social development of the United States.1 After the panic of 1873, the United States experienced an economic depression which caused wage cuts, evictions, evictions, breadlines, and left as many as three million people unemployed. Even though some people were still able to keep their jobs, their wages were severely decreased up to the point that the workers do not have enough money to sustain their families. One such company is the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad who cut the wages by 10 percent, and decreased their brakemen’s wage from $70 to $30 – the second wage cut in just eight months. The hardships that the workers experienced after the cutting
1. The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, lasted six weeks. It started on December 13th, 1937, the day the Japanese invaded and captured Nanking, which is now the city of Nanjing. During this period, the Imperial Japanese Army killed civilians and injured Chinese soldier. There are no official death tolls but there is an estimate of 200 000 to 400 000 deaths. There were 20 000 to 80 000 women raped. Once one of China’s most modern and prosperous cities, the industrial city of Nanking took decades to recover from the devastation it experienced.
Seventy nine years ago an estimated of more than 300,000 men, women, and children were inhumanely controlled through the brute strength of an unannounced military raid. This led to the incomputable amount of monstrosities committed by man to fellow man. Leading up this dark moment in history was a major conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, which was sparked by the illustrious desire of natural resources by the Japanese government. From here the Japanese slowly encroached into the Chinese land taking everything they once loved, and eventually making it to the heart of China; Nanking. Throughout a short and brutal six week period the Japanese ravaged and destroyed the capital of Nanking, China as a part of the Second
World War II was a devastating war, whether you were directly in the war zone, or away from the battlefield, you were impacted greatly. Flyboys is a book written by James Bradley, in this book Bradley tells stories of World War II using first-hand accounts. In chapter five, Bradley discusses “The Rape of China” which was a battle that took place in 1937 during the beginning of World War II. In this battle, the Japanese fight the Chinese and destroy China. Both Japan and China had very different moral beliefs on fighting in the war. China believed that the soldiers needed to “be courteous,” and to also be “neither selfish nor unjust” to civilians (Bradley 54). Meanwhile, the Japanese had totally opposite policies known as the “Three Alls” meaning
Nanking was not the only place of Japanese Army atrocities. Nanking held the distinction of allowing foreigners to witness and survive the atrocities. I learned from the story that the Japanese Army would take drastic measures to eliminate a people, to systematically use every means available to eliminate your enemy, people that may not have been involved, people that got in your way and people you just took pleasure in killing. To even invite fellow military personnel who were not even involved to come and watch as if it is some side show. A sick pride in performing your duties.To knowingly kill people in many different possible ways, who are just scared and frightened, just to entertain yourself.
In just six short weeks, the Chinese city of Nanjing was devastated with the brutal murdering of civilians ranging somewhere between 40,000 to 300,000 deaths, along with 20,000 to 80,000 of the cities woman being raped. These horrific statistics came to fruition after the Imperial Japanese Army forces abruptly entered the Chinese city of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China at the time, on December 13, 1937. It is often debated as to how serious the massacre really was as both the death and rape tolls seems to have such large ranges. Although many may argue that the Rape of Nanjing was Japans attempt at world domination, others often disagree, proclaiming that the genocide was simply exaggerated and possibly even fabricated entirely. In many instances this “fabrication” was believed to be an attempt at political propaganda, but there are various supporting facts that prove otherwise. The massacre was in fact a real,
Humanitarian interference positions a hard trial for an international society constructed on the doctrines of sovereignty, intervention, and the use of force. Directly after the holocaust, the society of states recognized the laws prohibiting genocide, forbidding the exploitation of civilians, and identifying plain human rights. These humanitarian values often clash with doctrines of sovereignty. Sovereign states are required to perform as protectors of their citizens’ security, but what happens if states act as villains towards their own people, treating power as a pass to kill? Should dictatorial states be recognized as valid members of international society and permitted the protection afforded by the intervention norm? Or else, most states loss their sovereign rights and be exposed to reasonable intervention if they aggressively abuse or fail to protect their citizens? Connected to this, what responsibilities do other states or organizations have to enforce human rights standards against governments that vastly violate them?
The Nanking, or known as Nanking Massacre or Rape of Nanking, started on December 13, 1937 and lasted for about six weeks. It all started out during the Sino-Japanese War when the Japanese won a gory victory in Shanghai in the summer of 1937. Their next stop was towards Nanking and General Matsui Iwane commanded his troop, made of 50,000 soldiers, to invade and destroy the city.
They slaughtered thousands of Chinese civilians during the rape of Nanking in 1937. It was necessary for America to drop the bomb.
In Canada, growing industrial hemp was legalized in 1998. Eighteen years later, producers still face many challenges. Farmers first have to get a license from the government to grow hemp. Then they can only plant the seeds of specific cultivars, or types, of hemp. These specific cultivars have been approved by the Canadian government because they contain minimal amounts of THC. (THC is the psychoactive component found in marijuana.) Finally, farmers in eastern Canada face an additional challenge because very little is known about how to grow hemp in eastern Canada.
In order to understand the magnitude of “crimes against humanity,” let’s first look into the ingredients of the whole recipe. At the most basic level, each human being has inalienable human rights. These rights are inherent, that by the virtue of being born and existing in the world as a human being you are entitled to them. These rights are universal, applicable at all times and in all places in the world. These inalienable human rights are egalitarian, meaning they are equal for every person. To reach a broad-spectrum agreement on the international scale, representatives from all over the world of different cultures and legal backgrounds came together in Paris on December 10th 1948 to draft The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR consists of 30 articles defining human rights, with article 1 beginning the series that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”1. These rights should be upheld and respected by all nations and peoples, not to be violated unless a direct implication with due process, and even then, should not violate unlawful imprisonment and/or execution. When the term “gross violations of human rights” is used, it is referring to the violation of any basic human right or the violation of human rights as a general term. These acts are isolated inhumane transgressions, most often referring to crimes committed by a single party against an individual.
The Rape of Nanking was an event that occurred between Japan and China. The Japanese army invaded Japan on December 13, 1937. (Mills)This was after a few events occurred that angered Japan, including the Battle of Shanghai. In “The Rape of Nanking” it states how Japan’s army, led by General Matsui Iwane, invaded China. The Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek wanted to keep fighting, and did not back down. After a few weeks, Prince Asaka took over and he said “kill all captives.” The soldiers took this seriously, which resulted in many deaths. This source comes from the Arizona Digital Library, a trusted and well-known online program. Thousands of Chinese citizens were killed, some sources say up to 300,000.
After Josip Broz Tito, the communist president of Yugoslavia, died in 1980, citizens of Yugoslavia took advantage of attempting to declare their independence (History of Bosnian Genocide). A man by the name of Slobodan Milosevic soon came into power and further fueled the tension within Yugoslavia. In 1992, Bosnia, following the footsteps of Croatia and Slovenia for independence, was home for different ethnic Muslim groups; with in the same year, Serbia declared war on Bosnia in hopes to claim the land as their own (History of Bosnian Genocide). By using military force and concentration camps, Serbia was attempting to eradicate this ethnic group using genocide. Just like the Holocausts, individual rights were being violated and they were being dehumanized. As a result and stated in our class text, the International Criminal Court (1998) was formed to holding state leaders accountable for human rights violations. Humanitarian intervention would have been permissible in this instance because, again, it would save people’s lives. “The violent dismemberment of Yugoslavia has added the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ to the global vocabulary (Denich).‘” Serbia was trying to completely erase the Bosnian ethnic
Wellington Koo, the delegate of Republic of China put Nanking Massacre at the central evidence of his speech, depicting the miserable state of Chinese civilians to condemn Japan and to call for the aid of other countries. However his argument was not rewarded with the attention of other countries, which made him and the government to give up using Nanking Massacre as the example of Japanese atrocity.