Original sentence: According to the testimonies, some women were forced into military prostitution as comfort women.It is considered that it was common for a woman to be killed immediately after being raped, usually by mutilation.It is even believed that the Japanese troops often forced families to commit acts of incest: sons were forced to rape their mothers, fathers were forced to rape daughters.It is said as well that many women were taken captive to be gang-raped, and some were kept to be raped again.Monks who had declared a life of celibacy were forced to rape women for the amusement of the Japanese.While the rape peaked immediately following the fall of the city, it continued for the duration of the Japanese occupation
Edited sentence: But these testimonies are often debated, and has recently come under fire as many Japanese sources claim that such stories are miscontstrued and biased.It it unknown whether such atrocities actually took place or have been fabricated by the left-wing Chinese media as a means of politcal and socio-economic warfare on their Japanese neighbors.Japanese media frequently respond that the Chinese are in little position to criticize other nations on alleged past war-crimes, as Chinese war-time misconduct in the South-East Asian region has been highly publicized