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China Holds Memorial Ceremony for Nanjing Massacre

A memorial ceremony for the victims of Nanjing Massacre was held Thursday morning in Nanjing. The ceremony means to remind the people to remember Nanjing massacre, one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th Century.


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A memorial ceremony held for victims of Nanjing Massacre

A memorial ceremony for the victims of Nanjing Massacre was held Thursday morning in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

More than 2,000 people including veterans of the Anti-Japanese war and survivors of the massacre attended the ceremony to remember the 300,000 people who died 64 years ago.

The memorial means to remind the people remember the tragedies

During the ceremony, an alarm was sounded throughout Nanjing, warning the people not to forget Nanjing massacre, one of the greatest tragedies of the Twentieth Century.

"We are here mourning our compatriots to reveal and criticize Japanese right-wingers' attempts to deny Japan's invasion of China and to follow the previous militarist road," said Li Yuanchao, deputy secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops invaded Nanjing and murdered 300,000 innocent civilians.



Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing


Nanjing Massacre, also called the Rape of Nanjing, was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000.

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