Remember history and pray for peace.
On the eve of the National Memorial Day, a reporter from the China News Agency took aerial photos of the burial site near the North Pole Pavilion of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese invaders near Beijing East Road, Nanjing.
Arctic Pavilion is a hill in Nanjing, also known as Qintian Mountain. It is located in the Gulou District of Nanjing, with Taicheng and Xuanwu Lake in the north and Gulougang in the west.
At the burial site of the victims in the Arctic Pavilion near the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese invaders, the engraved "Monument to the Victims near the Arctic Pavilion in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders" is particularly eye-catching. Every year around December 13th, peace-loving people will come. To mourn the dead and cherish peace.
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese invaders captured Nanjing. In the following six weeks, the Japanese soldiers carried out a tragic massacre of Nanjing citizens and Chinese soldiers.
The victims and the burial places of the compatriots were Jiangdongmen, Zhongshan Lingxiwazi Village, Yijiangmen, Qingliangshan, Coal Port, Arctic Pavilion, Zhongshan Wharf, Hanzhongmen, Caoxie Gorge, Yanziji, etc.
(Reporter Ge Yong edited Guo Shihao)
Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]