Nanjing Mourns 60 Years After Massacre

A cloud of mourning hung over Nanjing as residents of the eastern Chinese city flocked to a memorial to view the skeletal remains of some of the 300,000 people slaughtered by Japanese troops 60 years ago. An official memorial on the site of a mass grave was the focal point for remembrance of the 1937 massacre, unleashed when the Japanese Imperial Army entered what had been the Chinese capital of Nanking. Citizens snaked silently past exhibits including a sunken display of the buried skulls and limbs of victims of the “Rape of Nanking.”