Photographs of victims are displayed at the Nanking massacre memorial. Picture: Stuart Heaver
The Nanking massacre: why Hong Kong and world downplayed atrocity, distracted by New Year’s Eve partying and a minor incident
Few in the colony or elsewhere knew or cared about the horrors being unleashed on civilians in the former Chinese capital by Japanese troops; only decades later did the true scale of the atrocities receive widespread publicity
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Photographs of victims are displayed at the Nanking massacre memorial. Picture: Stuart Heaver