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To: RealMuLan who wrote (56318)11/22/2004 2:15:29 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74559
 
Nanjing Massacre claims another life
By Victor Fic

BEIJING - "The chronicle of humankind's cruelty is a long and sorry tale. But if it is true that even in such horror tales there are degrees of ruthlessness, then few atrocities can compare in intensity and scale to the rape of Nanjing during World War II."

So wrote Chinese-American author Iris Chang in the introduction to her 1997 bookThe Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Basic Books, 1997). A New York Times best-seller that was translated into 13 languages, the book sank like a stone into the pond of official historical apathy in the West and official denial and evasion in Japan. Still, there were exceptions.

Much to the shock and horror of her millions of fans and supporters worldwide, the 36-year-old Chang committed suicide by firing a single bullet into her head on November 9. A commuter discovered her body alone in her car on a rural road near Sunnyvale, which is close to San Jose, California.
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atimes.com