violence

"There is no obvious explanation for this grim event, nor can one be found. The Japanese soldiers, who had expected easy victory, instead had been fighting hard for months and had taken infinitely higher casualties than anticipated. They were bored, angry, frustrated, tired. The Chinese women were undefended, their menfolk powerless or absent. The war, still undeclared, had no clear-cut goal or purpose. Perhaps all Chinese, regardless of sex or age, seemed marked out as victims."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre


My mind struggles to comprehend any of that.
It just cannot process any of that.

How do people go from being a person as we understand it to an animal, because such brutality does not have any other name. NO, actually, animals do not torture, they kill to feed, but not to humiliate and torture. So what is it? What is the name of this sort of violence?

I cannot process any of it.