Program provides further proof of massacre

A multilingual documentary providing further proof of the Nanjing Massacre premiered on both the Chinese- and foreign-language channels of China Central Television on Dec 13, as the country observed its first National Memorial Day for the victims.

The five-episode The Memory of Nanjing in 1937, which took two years to complete, attempts to present a full and objective picture of the tragedy through interviews with more than 120 scholars, survivors and their descendants. The Japanese murdered more than 300,000 Chinese during the massacre.

Each episode focuses on someone who didn't witness the tragedy firsthand, but whose life was significantly affected by it. The first episode, for example, discusses the life of Chinese-American writer Iris Chang.