Essays on Atrocity

The Nanking Massacre took place in Nanking, China on December 13, 1937. It is also known as the Rape of Nanking, a battle during the Second Sino-Japanese War that lasted more than six weeks. Iwane Matsui served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and commanded the forces that captured Nanking.  Matsui may not have been directly responsible for the Nanking Massacre, however, an international military court convicted Matsui of war crimes in 1948 and sentenced to death.    Matsui commanded the armies that were to capture Nanking. He had already retired from the Japanese army, but was recalled ...

The world has witnessed many atrocities committed against a group of people based on ethnicity, race, nationality, or religion. Or course, the Holocaust comes to mind immediately as one of the greatest atrocities ever committed by one regime. The acts committed by groups like ISIS and Boko Haram today will long be remember as atrocities against specific groups of people. Another atrocity that stands out in terms of savagery and ruthlessness of the massacre the occurred in the city of Nanking (or Nanjing) in China in 1937 that is often referred to as the Rape of Nanking. This atrocity ...

The arrival of the British troops in Boston in the year 1768 was a cause of much unrest between the relations of the Americans and the British. The American soldiers were just as disturbed as the American citizens, who were forced to be kept under control by the British rule. America being a British colony at the time was forced to follow the rules and regulation imposed by the British. The unrest that ensued came from the colonists and the ones who were loyal to the British Parliament. As much as the personal strife between the colonists and the ...

American superheroes and action figures follow a distinct history and background to their origin and existence. Also, that background is chosen to be American in nature, and mostly the work and actions of that chosen superhero revolve around an American backdrop. Superman is an age-old superhero who has gained immense popularity amongst the American as well as worldwide audience due to his saving-the-world way of life, and the various stories that circulate in his life are in one way or the other pertinent to American culture and lifestyle. Different critics have responded to the existence of Superman differently. For ...

Rwanda is not only an African country with panoramic hills and kind laughing people. It is a country where only 22 years ago, during just one hundred days, there eight hundred and fifty thousand people, which was one-seventh of the total population of Rwanda, were killed. In the civilized 20th century, almost one million people were killed without the use of gas chambers, crematories, extermination camps or other modern technical innovations. The victims fell down mostly from hands of neighbors and relatives with machetes and other melee weapons. This sorrowful massacre of the Rwandan people was left without any ...