BEIJING: China commemorated victims of a historic massacre by Japanese troops in the city of Nanjing for the second time on Sunday, holding a sober official memorial that contrasted with a much grander ceremony last year.
Beijing says 300,000 people were killed during the “Rape of Nanking”, a period of mass murder and rape committed after the city fell to soldiers in 1937 following Japan’s invasion of China.
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