The total number of civilians and prisoners of war murdered in Nanking and its vicinity during the first six weeks of the Japanese occupation was over 200,000.These figures do not take into account those persons whose bodies were destroyed by throwing them into the Yangtze River or otherwise disposed of by the Japanese. --- From Judgement of the International Millitary Tribunal.

Disarmed Chinese soldiers were roped together and escorted to the suburbs,to be machine-gunned death.

On the Zhongshan Road of the city.Nanjing residents roped together were escorted by the Japanese soldiers to the suburbs to be massacred.

On December 16, 1937,about five to six thousand people were arrested as "captured Chinese soldiers" on the Zhongshan Road in the city proper.Among them,there were even elderly people and children as well.