Visitors look at photos of victims at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, 14 August 2016. People from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea attended a peaceful assembly in Nanjing on Monday (15 August 2016) to commemorate the victory of China's war of resistance against Japanese aggression. In the Nanjing Massacre Victim's Memorial Hall, in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, representatives from the three countries recited a declaration of peace in the morning. On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops began six weeks of destruction, pillage, rape and slaughter in Nanjing. More than 300, 000 Chinese, including unarmed soldiers and innocent civilians, were murdered. This year marks the 71st anniversary of the end of the war.
