Monument Set up for Mass Grave of Massacre Victims

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Saturday, December 08, 2001

Monument Set up for Mass Grave of Massacre Victims

People gathered in Nanjing Friday afternoon to mark the erection of a monument to mark a mass gravesite where thousands of victims massacred by invading Japanese troops in the 1930s were buried.

People gathered in Nanjing Friday afternoon to mark the erection of a monument to mark a mass gravesite where thousands of victims massacred by invading Japanese troops in the 1930s were buried.

The victims were among the 300,000 Chinese killed by the Japanese troops in Nanjing in 1937.

In the mass gravesite in the Huashen Temple region and around, some 27,239 bodies were buried in groups between December 22, 1937and April 18, 1938 by two charity societies, and another 7,000bodies were buried by local residents in January and February of1938, according to historical documents.

So far 16 such monuments have been set up around Nanjing for those slaughtered and buried in groups.

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