This Day, That Year

Item from Dec 14, 1987, in China Daily: Nanjing people lay wreaths to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. Between Dec 13, 1937, and the following February, Japanese forces killed 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers after capturing Nanjing.

Yesterday marked the country's second National Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre Victims. Meanwhile, a national memorial was held in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, to remind people of the massacre in which Japanese troops killed 300,000 Chinese people in a rampage of rape, murder and looting.

In October, UNESCO listed Nanjing Massacre documents in its Memory of the World program, marking an "international recognition and consensus", historians said.