On this day, 13 December 1937, the Nanjing massacre began when Imperial Japanese troops captured the city which was then the capital of China and began six weeks of murder, looting and rape which left 40-300,000 people dead. (Content note: this post contains graphic descriptions of violence and sexual violence) Japanese media at the time covered a contest between two army officers to see who could be the first to kill 100 people with a sword. After they surpassed the figure, they began another contest to see who could kill 150. Tens of thousands of civilians and surrendered soldiers were machine-gunned and thrown in the Yangtze River, blown up with landmines, or burned or buried alive. In addition to murders, around 20,000 people – children and adult and elderly women – were raped by Japanese soldiers: many of them were gang raped, and assaulted by being penetrated with bayonets, bamboo or other foreign objects. Despite the fact that the atrocities were widely reported by Chinese victims, foreign eyewitnesses, Japanese participants and even Japanese generals and other officials, as well as being filmed and extensively photographed, many Japanese politicians and ultra-nationalists today try to deny that the massacre even took place. After hearing of the massacre, dockworkers in Australia refused to load pig iron onto ships delivering materials to Japan.
Pictured: a mass grave of some of the victims https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1606433149541829/?type=3
Also made a plan of what to plant where. We’ll see if I’ll stick to it!
Tomorrow is a holiday, so I should even have time to plant.
The advantage of having my own plant nursery is that I can pick up my vegetable plants on the holiday (since I need to go there anywhere to water everything) and if I forget anything, I’ll be there the next day again anyway (and the next and the next and the next and the next and the next hundred or so as well…)
And another advantage is that I can just start everything I want in pots (as long as I hide it from the customers…) and not have to worry about the slugs eating the fresh seedlings. So now I have plenty of “not for sale” bean and pea seedlings among the “for sale” cucumbers and squash.
Hm. Should I sow another tray of carrots, just for myself? More time-consuming but also a higher chance of success than direct sowing.
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