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Year: 2014
China has begun to publish oral testimonies of 100 survivors of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in the latest move to refute Japanese politicians' denial of Japan's World War II aggression. The daily publications began on Wednesday with the testimonyof 85-year-old Xia Shuqin. It was posted on China's NationalMemorial website and that of the Memorial Hall of the Victims ofthe Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. Read More
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