to Joshua182.
You sound much better now.
As to what you said, we are on the same frequency now.
I never take Iris Chang's work to be fully accurate.
Basically I am a believer it happened, I am just more concerned
on how those people who want us to think that it happened used
sources that were later found accurate.
Quoting a recent example,
Jakarta Riots 1998 that targeted Indonesian Chinese. Without a
doubt rapes did happen. But it was blown out of proportion.
Photographs of dark skinned women being abused by Indonesian
Army, their corpses were mutilated were being passed off as
atrocities that happened in Jakarta. It was proven later that they
are pictures taken when Indonesia was fighting a guerilla war in
Timor Leste & Papua.
Supposed Indonesian Chinese set up numerous websites trying to
tell the world what is happening to them. They downloaded "rape"
pictures from porn sites trying to pass them off as happening in
Jakarta.
If you do a simple search on google, there are many many
detailed accounts of how the rapes happened. I do doubt some of
their authencity based on the following,
1) "writer" placed "her own" pictures on the account (something
not many are willing to do)
2) Writer wrote in detail as to step by step chronology what
happened to her (or someone she/he seen)
3) the format of the write up are similar, (I am a normal
Indonesian Chinese, not richer than most natives, but i am being
preyed just because i am chinese, they cornered me, i tried not to
remember, i woke up in pain).
Basically, I am trying to say if we as people are trying to push
for a cause, we should try to use evidence as accurate as posssible
just to fortify our credibility.