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 victims; the fourth anniversary of Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day in Ontario; and the third anniversary of the establishment of the Nanjing Massacre Victims Monument in Toronto.
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 announced in 2014.
The Nanjing massacre has also been described as one of the most barbaric episodes in the history of World War II although it officially began on September 1, 1939.