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Everyone should read the book "The Rape of Nanking" by American journalist Iris Chang. After writing the book Chang suffered from major depressive disorder and committed suicide at the age of 36, making her in some way the last victim of the rape of Nanking. The Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre (in Nanjing) added a wing dedicated to her in 2005, one year after her death. The Nanjing massacre remains one of the most depraved massacres of civilians in human history: the Japanese army killed 300,000 civilians in the space of 6 weeks and raped an estimated 20,000-80,000 women. And worst of all, to this day some Japanese officials celebrate some of the authors of the massacre at the Yasukuni Shrine. This year, remembering this massacre is of course particularly relevant given what's occurring in Gaza. It depressingly illustrate how we seem unable to learn and evolve as a species...