Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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Drugs and Crime - What's the Connection?
Japanese businessmen treated their Chinese workers like slaves, sometimes killing them for the slightest infraction. When woman was beheaded behind the factory, she worked that for simply being accused of stealing. Another man was stoned to death for the same reason. Like an accusation was all it took. And that accusation was literally just like a Japanese person says that you stole something you're guilty. Now, this spike in crime was used by the Japanese as an excuse for their continued heavy handed occupation of Nanking. They also applied young men, you know, boys and girls with opium before getting them hooked and then kidnapping them. Yep.
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