The War Crimes Trials

From May 3,1946 to November 12,1948 the war criminals of the Nanking

Massacre were tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East

(IMTFE) in Tokyo. The prosecution was composed of justices from eleven

countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, India, Netherlands,

New Zealand, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the United States. This

shows the international interest in this trial. The war crime trials were held at

ten different counties in China for a spans of two years.

Twenty eight of the eighty men involved in the Nanking Massacre were tried.

At the trial there were numerous eye-witness accounts of the

massacre not only by the victims but also the brave volunteers from

the Nanking Safety Zone. A reported at the trials wrote,"The Rape of Nanking

was not the kind of isolated incident common to all wars. It was deliberate.

It was policy. It was know in Tokyo." (www.cnd.org)

After two painful years of purging their memories, the fate of

these Japanese inhuman men came in 1948.

the verdict

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