BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — Invading Japanese troops massacred at least 500,000 Chinese before the occupation of Nanjing in 1937, according to declassified documents from the United States government, says a Chinese scholar.
Two telegrams from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration added evidence to support claims of a “Pan-Nanjing Massacre” that included the slaughter of people in the area surrounding China’s then capital, said Wang Lan, a researcher of the State Archives Administration of China. for more click here