HONG KONG, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) — China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) held a ceremony on Friday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
Vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Leung Chun-ying and Acting Chief Executive of the HKSAR Chan Kwok-ki attended the ceremony along with representatives of assorted central authorities businesses in Hong Kong, representatives of the HKSAR’s judiciary, principal officers of the HKSAR authorities, members of the HKSAR Executive Council and the HKSAR Legislative Council, representatives of HKSAR deputies to the National People’s Congress, representatives of HKSAR members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, former members of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Brigade of the East River Column, in addition to representatives of veteran teams and college students.
The individuals sang China’s nationwide anthem and noticed a second of silence. Chan, who laid a wreath and led the attendees to bow to mourn the victims, signed the commemorative album, adopted by different attendees.
The Nanjing Massacre came about after the Japanese Imperial Army captured town in jap China on Dec. 13, 1937. The Japanese invaders brutally killed roughly 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed troopers in over six weeks in one of the barbaric atrocities throughout World War II.
In 2014, China’s prime legislature designated Dec. 13 because the nationwide memorial day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. The HKSAR authorities and civil teams arrange memorial ceremonies yearly, hoping to display the Chinese individuals’s agency stance in resolutely safeguarding nationwide sovereignty, territorial integrity and world peace.