Who were were worse - Japanese soldiers or British soldiers?

[bobthebandit]

Was the rape of Nanking by the Japanese on the Chinese prior to WW2, or the massacres commited by British Forces in India following the Indian Mutiny in 1857 the worse atrocity? (some of the atrocities by us included exceuting people tied to cannons and firing them into their stomachs, and also making prisoners lick blood off the floor before hanging them)

[jno]

I don't think executing rebels usually counts as an atrocity; the method used wasn't pleasant, but what method is?

[Ankou]

revenge for revenge, but as said execution is never pleasant no mater how it is done.

in the bibighar massacre, 120 british women and children captured by the sepoy forces were hacked to death and dismembered with meat cleavers, with the remains being thrown down a nearby well in an attempt to hide the evidence.

there was little sympathy or mercy for the sepoy after that and so blowing them apart with canons, force feeding them pork and making them lick the blood off the walls was probably an attempt to deface their religious beliefs just before they died so that they had no hope of getting to their 'promised' afterlife.

[Ankou]

oh no you didnt

[Ankou]

rain. its the water cycle. if your hippy says any different, then the rule is that i am right, he is wrong.

[123everton]

The Japs undoutedly, OK so the put down of the mutiny was brutal but so was the revolt.
The Japs did more than just rape Nanking (read John Rabe's account "The Good German Of Nanking") you don't want to know what they did to Chinese women with golf clubs.
Added to that you had the forced starvation and torture of P.O.Ws aand then then there was the "comfort girls" of Korea and the chemical warfare experiments in Manchuoko (Manchuria) and finally take no notice of this Bushido spiel look at Japanese behaviours in WW1 to P.O.W.s and also the peace treaty with the Russians after their failed invasion.
At least we confess to our sins.....

[123everton]

Don't entirely agree with you there Steve, the sepoy revolt did'nt spread to the rest of India (if it had we'd have been screwed) so a large part of the counter offensive was done with colonial troops.
There were some terrible outbursts of violence in villages in the affected areas, but it was nowhere as near as systematic as the Japanese march through China and the Philipines.
The net result of the Indian mutiny (as an aside) was the emergence of a Sikh and Hindu middle class under British patronage.
Muslims were largely (inexpicably) left out of this venture and as a response built their own schools and technical colleges devoted to the new sciences etc, the area they chose was (is) called Deoband the political movements and ramifications of it are only being truly understood today.
The Taleban's political policies are often called a modern form of Deobandism.