Nanjing Massacre December 13, 1937

During the second Sino-Japan War, Japanese army under the instruction of Japanese emperor and with the help of their Chinese, in particular Manchurian, collaborators invaded China and killed 300,000 Chinese in capital city Nanjing alone.

Horrible death wiped out all but two of a Chinese family of 11 when 30 Japanese soldiers broke in to the house on December 13, 1937 (Photo by an American journalist).

A beating with an iron bar was given this 14-year-old boy who begged to go home when taken prisoner and starved (Photo by an American journalist)

His dead burned to a cinder. This man died in a few hours. He was one of 100 tied together, doused with gasoline by Japanese.

For resisting assault, this 19-year-old woman was stabbed 29 times by armed Japanese men. She had a miscarriage in a refugee hospital later.

A tribute to the victims with some of their names engraved on the memorial wall in Nanjing.

It is the third systematic genocide of Chinese people by invasion forces taken place in the past millennium, following the Mongol atrocity in 13th century and the Manchurian carnage in 17th century. Hopefully this would indeed be the last mass murder incident on the land of China, as it is so indicated by history and beyond.

Three years ago in the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, a Chinese girl displayed a banner made by herself on a street urging her fellow citizens to "remember what happened in history, like a child memorizes his lesson, like an elderly recalls his past".