National Memorial Service will be held today in China mourning compatriots killed in the Nanjing massacre | national symbol _ news
Beijing, December 13 (Zheng Tao) today is the first National Memorial Day of the victims of the Nanjing massacre, is also determined by law of the NPC National Memorial to the victims of the Nanjing massacre's first anniversary in the future. This morning, the State memorial ceremony will be held in Nanjing, sirens throughout the city to mourn those killed. Party and State leaders will attend the event.
8th, the Nanjing City Government said in a statement, to pay tribute to victims of the Nanjing massacre by the Japanese and all Japan suffered during the war of resistance against imperialist Japan killing victims who were the aggressors, keeping in mind the aggression inflicted untold suffering to the Chinese people and the world people, expressed deep condolences to victims of the Nanjing massacre, December 13, at 10 o'clock will hold a national memorial ceremony to the victims of the Nanjing massacre.
77 years ago, on December 13, the Japanese invading troops occupied Nanjing, China, after more than a month time, bloody slaughter of more than 300,000 Chinese, produced shocked the Nanjing massacre. Since 2005, more NPC deputies and CPPCC members on the "two sessions" proposal on establishing a national memorial day. In the community's call of on February 27 this year, adopted at the 12 meeting of the seventh NPC decided December 13 to establish a National Memorial Day of the victims of the Nanjing massacre.
"The Nanjing massacre is one of the darkest and heaviest in the modern history of the Chinese nation. "The Japanese invading troops killed in the Nanjing massacre Memorial Hall curator Zhu Chengshan said that during the war, more than 35 million Chinese casualties. However, over the years, lacks a centralized marking anniversary of civilian victims at national level, the victors of the second world war with China's status, nor in line with international practice.
Noteworthy is that this year, the commemoration of the war-related "rare high specification". In the anti-Japanese war on July 7 anniversary of the outbreak of the 77 day, XI, Yu zhengsheng and other party and State leaders appeared in the Chinese people's anti-Japanese war memorial ceremony. This is the first time a leader of the nation "July 7" the official commemoration of the day.
Two months later, on September 3, the seven attend Standing Committee member of China's first Sino-Japanese War Victory Day statutory activities, breaking the previous top leaders only "meets five every ten" years before attending the commemoration of the victory of law.
In the first Nanjing massacre victims in national memorial day approaching, Chinese officials, civil society has undertaken a series of related activities. Official website of the national archives on 7th this month in its network video released seven episodes of the selected archive collections of the Nanjing massacre to commemorate the first National Memorial Day of the victims of the Nanjing massacre in China on December 13. This is the first time the National Archives publish as video archives of the Nanjing massacre.
Nanjing municipal archives has also selected from the archives of the Nanjing massacre 100 "public submissions", through official Web sites, Twitter and news media to announce to the community. These "public submissions" are mainly formed in February 1938 to January 1946, was the people reporting the Government's accusation, includes accusing Japanese atrocities, reflects the casualties and property losses caused by the Holocaust and asked Japan for compensation.
Took 4 years to compile, and contains more than 2,600 entries 7th this month in the first volume of the dictionary of the Nanjing massacre in Nanjing was launched. It is reported that the book was "Twelve-Five" focus on publishing projects, divided into four volumes collected over more than 8,000 entries, is China's first book about the Nanjing massacre historical dictionary, by 2015 all four volumes will be published.
On December 10 "world human rights day", "victims of the Nanjing massacre survivor an open letter addressed to the United Nations human rights bodies" in Nanjing to the public. It is reported that nearly 700-Word open letter from 3,361 in the length of the victims in Nanjing massacre survivor and survivor jointly drafted, on behalf of the Chinese human rights research society, survivors of the victims of the Nanjing massacre, respectively sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Human Rights Council bodelaier·en winter · Ella and the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights zhayide·laade·housaiyin.
Open letter calls for the survivors: we love peace, because we know that war means bloodshed and destruction. We remember history is not to perpetuate hatred, only China and Japan both stand on the basis of respect for historical facts, the Chinese and Japanese peoples in order to achieve genuine reconciliation.
Japanese invading troops killed in the Nanjing massacre Memorial Hall has also announced a new record of 7,602, concerning the Nanjing massacre and sexual violence, poison gas warfare, Japan invaded China, as well as themes of the world anti-fascist war.
In addition, the Federation of civil claims against Japan, China recently passed Japan Ambassador to musichang people, wrote to the Japan Government and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, demanding Japan to the Japanese Government killed 300,000 Nanjing souls an apology. This is the first time Chinese civil organizations with letters to demand Japan Government apology of the Nanjing massacre. (End)
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