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War crimes are bad but lying about them is also bad.The ray peat pogrom
Nanjing Massacre denial - Wikipedia
" Some scholars, notably the revisionists in Japan, have contended that the actual death toll is far lower, or even that the event was entirely fabricated and never occurred at all.[4][5] These revisionist accounts of the killings have become a staple of Japanese nationalist discourse.[6]"
Lol no surprises that nationalistic Japanese scholars are interested in painting this as not being true.
lolFor specialists, as opposed to laymen, this Nanking-as-Holocaust claim is so full of holes that persons fond of conspiracy theories might suspect Tanaka, Takemoto, and Ohara of having paid (Iris) Chang and the PRC to submit it
continued..Some Westerners at the time laid the blame for arson, rape, and pillage on fleeing KMT troops or those masquerading as refugees. Other Westerners attributed murders to KMT Special Forces ("urge to fight corps" tu-chan-tui Tgti' ) charged with ensuring that defense units-some of which were of dubious loyalty-died in action. Hence, the three argue, Western eyewitnesses documented the Chinese side perpetrating most of the rapes, looting, and killings that did take place at Nanking; yet Chang and the PRC pin all blame on Japan.19 Worse still, Chang and the PRC repeatedly flaunt photographs-proven to have been faked, altered, or taken elsewhere-to indict Japan for bestial crimes at Nanking.20 Citing news reportstating that Westerners violated pledges of neutrality by harboring armed Chinese troops in the International Safety Zone Tanaka, Takemoto, and Ohara argue that Japanese mop-up patrols were justified in eliminating those combatants.21
Chinese "plainclothes troops" (pien-i-tui MAR) kept their weapons, the three claim, but cast off uniforms and masqueraded as refugees to ambush unsuspecting Japanese units. The killing of such guerrillas as an extension of battle differed from genocide. Indeed, it was the Chinese plainclothes troops who violated international lw. Japanese troops killed refugees or POWs only inadvertently and in exceptional cases when mistaken for guerrillas.22 In sum, these three would have us surmise, Japanese battlefield actions taken at Nanking were like those by American troops at No Gunrin the Korean War or by Israeli troops on the West Bank during the Intifada. In guerrilla warfare, when soldiers cannotell refugees from combatants, innocent people sometimes die