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By RENA LI in Toronto | China Daily Global | Updated: 2020-12-16 13:09 Share CLOSE A memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Sunday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre. In 2014, China's top legislature designated Dec 13 as the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims. [Photo by Cui Xiao/For China Daily] Dec 13 is a special day for Chinese Canadians in Ontario for a lot of reasons. The day marks the 83rd anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre; China's seventh National Memorial Day for the vict...

Nanjing Massacre: China Mourns Mass Murder of 300,000 Civilians By Japanese Forces In Nanjing During WW2 December 15, 2020 The Nanjing massacre in which 300,000 Chinese people were killed in a barbarous attack by the imperial Japanese troops is often called the “forgotten holocaust of World War II”. Remembering the victims of the Nanjing Massacre on its 83 rd anniversary (December 13), Chen Xi, a senior functionary of the Communist Party of China, called it “an inhuman act in human history”. This year China marked the massacre’s seventh national memorial ceremony, which was announce...