Yesterday, I took a stroll at Orchard and purchased a copy of Marie Claire with AJ on the cover. I browsed through the history section and spotted a book I have always wanted to read, The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang.
It first sparked an interest on me when Iris, a credible journalist committed suicide upon finishing the book. The massacre really haunted her so deeply that death was her only escape, I suppose. I am able to empathise with her situation when I read the introduction briefly and read the captions of the photos in the book. I almost vomitted my dinner and was very disturbed by the saddistic act that some, really took pleasure upon. How disgusting and inhuman of these people.
I still have not gathered enough courage to purchase this book or will I ever read it? I don't think I have the strength mentally to endure the suffering of what the 600,000 people of Nanking had gone through, half of them parished.
I hope, all we have learnt from history is that, we need compassion. I trust that with compassion, we will not stop becoming human.
