#202: The Rape of Nanking & The Trafficking of Comfort Women

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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They were called “Comfort Women,” but their lives would not be in any sense comfortable. They were kidnapped, tortured, and held hostage to be assaulted by military officials. Soldiers had their own name for them; it was “public toilets.” Most of these women either died in captivity from murder, disease, or from the sheer violence of their assaults. But don’t be fooled by the name, sometimes comfort women were girls as young as 11 years old. Why? Well, wartime always brings out the superstitions in soldiers, and it was believed that assaulting a virgin brought soldiers strength and power. And they would need that strength to go out and kill over 200,000 citizens in the city of Nanking. This might be one of the darkest cases we have covered in a very long time. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bitterbing, betterboot.
0:02.6	Welcome to this week's mini-sode of Rotten Mingo.
0:05.5	I'm your host, Stephanie Sue.
0:07.6	Chang was just nine years old when he was walking through the street with his mom.
0:11.6	She's holding onto her newborn baby, his newborn brother in his arms, and there's kind of a sense of urgency in the air.
0:18.2	They are wreaked. It wreaked of something metallic almost.
0:22.7	So the three of them, they keep their heads down and they shuffle their feet through the alleyway.
0:27.0	They're not trying to make eye contact with anyone. Nobody. That is the key to staying alive.
0:33.2	They rush through the alleyway, briskly walking, and then head on. They bump into three men.
0:40.7	And immediately, like you just knew, it was going to be bad.
0:43.5	These three men, they had these sick, twisted smiles on their faces.
0:47.5	They were looking at Chang's mom like they had just hit the jackpot.
0:51.7	Chang and his family looked at them, turned around and tried to you turn it back down the alleyway
0:56.6	where they came. But they grabbed for Chang's mom. He saw it.
1:00.4	He ran behind a dumpster and you watched in slow motion as one of the men that grabbed his mom stabbed her.
1:07.9	She fell to the ground screaming. He tried to scream out, too.
1:11.5	Please don't stab my mom. Please don't stab my mom.
1:14.9	Chang's mom was holding her newborn baby when she fell to the ground.
1:18.0	And one of the men smiled, came up behind her and stabbed her a second time.
1:22.5	She was in so much pain, she let go of her baby. The other man walks to the baby, the newborn baby that's on the ground,
1:30.1	grabs his knife and stabs the newborn child through his anal cavity.
1:35.6	It's described to be like a skewer. And they tossed the baby to the side and all three of these men they laugh.
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