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广播听力:Nanjing Massacre survivors wish no more killing in the world

Source: CRI    2017-12-13  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

In front of a wall with the names of the victims in the Nanjing Massacre, 88-year-old survivor Xia Shuqin pays tribute to her seven family members who were killed 80 years ago.

Her grand-daughter Xia Yuan is reading a letter to those departed on behalf of Xia Shuqin.

"Grandpa, grandma, father, mother, sisters, how are you. I have seen you many times in my dreams."

On December 13, 1937, invading Japanese military took Nanjing and began six-weeks of rampage that left 300,000 Chinese people brutally murdered.

Xia Shuqin managed to survive the massacre after being knifed three times on the back.

In the 1990s, Xia Shuqin went to Japan as