Hong Kong officials distance themselves from Nanking footage
The Hindu
The screening of the brutal and violent footage caused some students to cry and sparked complaints from parents, according to local media reports.
Hong Kong officials distanced themselves from the screening of a 1937 Nanking massacre video in a primary school that left some children in tears, saying schools are not required to screen such graphic footage.
The clip, which came from a documentary of the Nanking massacre, depicted Japanese soldiers killing civilians in the former Chinese capital. that left hundreds of civilians and disarmed soldiers dead.
“While learning history is of paramount importance, how to learn is something that we will defer to the education sector, because we have very well-trained teachers, we have well-run schools,” Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said during a press conference on Tuesday.
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