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Photo taken on Dec. 13, 2020 shows the national memorial ceremony
for the Nanjing Massacre victims at the Memorial Hall of the Victims of
the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east
China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)
NANJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The people of Nanjing observed a minute of
silence and sirens were heard across the city as China held a memorial
ceremony on Sunday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
Despite the winter chill, thousands of people clad in dark attire
attended the massacre's seventh national memorial ceremony in Nanjing,
east China's Jiangsu Province, with white flowers pinned to their chests
to convey their condolences. Attendees included massacre survivors,
local students and foreign visitors.
At exactly 10:01 a.m., sirens began to blare and drivers across the
city stopped their cars and sounded their horns. Pedestrians paused for a
minute of silence in remembrance of the victims.
More than 80 teenagers read out a declaration of peace and citizen
representatives struck the Bell of Peace. White doves symbolizing hope
for peace were released to fly over the square of the Memorial Hall of
the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
In 2014, China's top legislature designated Dec. 13 as the national
memorial day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, which took place
when Japanese troops captured the city on Dec. 13, 1937. The Japanese
invaders brutally killed about 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed
soldiers during the six-week massacre, making it one of the most
barbaric episodes of World War II.
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