A nationwide ceremony was held in China in memory of the victims of the Nanjing massacre

On December 13, a nationwide ceremony was held in China in memory of the victims of the Nanjing massacre, which was staged 88 years ago by the Imperial army of militaristic Japan. The event was broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV).

The memorial ceremony began in Nanjing at 10:00 a.m. local time (05:00 a.m. Moscow time). About 8 thousand people of all ages took part in it.

The memory of those killed in the massacre was honored with a minute of silence to the sound of sirens. An honor guard was present at the scene. The national flag of the People's Republic of China was lowered at half-mast on the occasion of the mourning.

By the end of the ceremony, flocks of pigeons, a symbol of peace, were released into the wild.

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Alexey Fenenko, Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, said on September 2, on the occasion of the historic Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, that one of the most terrible wartime events was the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, when Japanese invaders massacred and raped civilians for six weeks. The victory in this war became all the more important for China, as a result of which it defended its right to independence.

Nanjing is considered a symbol of the suffering of the Chinese people in the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.

Back in 2008, the Japanese government appealed to China with an unprecedented request to soften the tone of the exposition at the Memorial to the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-1938, during which soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army killed about 300,000 unarmed people. This wish was conveyed to the Chinese authorities in connection with the reconstruction and expansion of this complex, which reopened to visitors in December of the same year.

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