Nanjing Massacre Victims Named – BBC News

_41019723_nanjingditch203b.jpg From BBC News:

China has published the names of 13,000 people it says were killed by Japanese troops in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre . The list is the most complete record of the massacre to date according to the Xinhua news agency.

Beijing claims that 300,000 people died in Nanjing and many were tortured or raped when Japanese troops invaded what was then the Chinese capital. Japan disputes the figures and its refusal to apologise continues to sours relations between the two countries. The eight-volume document, released to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the massacre, lists the names, ages, occupations and addresses of the victims. [Full Text]

[Image: Between 50,000 and 300,000 people died in the massacre, from BBC News.]

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