China marks 84th anniversary of Nanking Massacre in WWII

Survivors, just 61 of whom are still living, are among those observing the date.

China on Monday marked the 84th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre, in which hundreds of thousands of civilians and disarmed soldiers were killed by Japanese troops in and around the former Chinese capital.

A People’s Liberation Army honour guard bearing large funeral wreaths marched slowly past a memorial showing the figure 3,00,000, China’s official death toll in the events of December 1937, as solemn music played. Troops, students and 3,000 attendees then stood at rigid attention to observe a minute of silence.