the Nanjing Massacre

 A professor from Nanjing on why the Nanjing Massacre can never be forgiven:

"What we remember is not hatred, but the absence of civilization — an absence that shows us how we must safeguard peace, protect life, and uphold justice…

As long as civilization survives, we can neither forgive nor forget."

"Why do we reopen this wound and remember the Nanjing Massacre, again and again? Not because I am from Nanjing, or China. It is because I am a human being."

"I have sat with dozens of survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. In their telling, I have never once heard a word of willingness to forgive.

Because those were their own mothers, fathers, siblings… We have no right to forgive on their behalf. Neither do any generations to come. Our only duty is to remember—for them."

"We remember because Japan chooses to forget. We remember because an official apology remains absent. We remember because war criminals are glorified at Yasukuni. We remember because the truth is still obscured in their textbooks. To forget would be to betray history itself."

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