HONG KONG, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) — China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) held a ceremony on Wednesday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
HKSAR Chief Executive John Lee attended the ceremony along with representatives of Central People’s Government organizations in Hong Kong, the chief justice of HKSAR’s Court of Final Appeal, 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. Lee, 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 happened after the Japanese Imperial Army captured the 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 vital 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 set up memorial ceremonies yearly, hoping to show the Chinese individuals’s agency stance in resolutely safeguarding nationwide sovereignty, territorial integrity and world peace.