BODY COUNTS MAKE THE CASE AGAINST WAR.(MAIN)

Byline: ILSE BAKER Voorheesville

It is always a pleasure to read one of Diane Cameron's thoughtful columns. The Dec. 7 piece on the historical significance of the 7th of December was particularly poignant and particularly depressing. The rape of Nanking, with 300,000 civilians killed in individual attacks and in only four weeks, is unimaginable. To put this death toll into context, the author gives us other horrific figures of civilians killed mostly through bombing during World War II: 61,000 in Britain, 108,000 in France, 101,000 in Belgium and 232,000 in the Netherlands, all lower than the toll of the atrocity committed in Nanking in one month in 1937.

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