A Nanjing Massacre survivor passed away Friday morning, the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders said Friday.
Ma Yuehua, one of the survivors of the massacre, died in the early morning hours. Her death has reduced the number of existing massacre survivors to less than 100.
Japanese troops captured Nanjing, then China’s capital, on Dec 13 of 1937 and started a campaign of slaughter lasting more than a month. More than 300,000 unarmed Chinese soldiers and civilians were murdered and over 20,000 women were raped.
In China the Nanjing Massacre is seen as the lowest point of an era in which the country was bullied and humiliated by foreign powers. In February 2014, China's top legislature designated December 13 as the national Memorial Day for victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
(Source：ourjiangsu.com)
