China on Saturday observed its first National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims, and the commemorative service gained worldwide media attention.

 

Singapore's South China Morning Post reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping unleashed at a solemn ceremony some of his sharpest words to date against Japan's wartime atrocities in China more than seven decades ago.

 

Xi and others gathered at a memorial hall in Nanjing, where 77 years ago invading Japanese soldiers slaughtered more than 300,000 people, mostly unresisting civilians, the newspaper said.

 

The newspaper quoted Xi as calling the massacre "a horrendous crime against humanity and a very dark page in the history of mankind" and stressing that history should not be altered with the passing of time, and facts not erased by crafty denial.

 

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