Outcry after children filmed throwing stones that symbolise victims at Nanking massacre memorial
Parents of children widely criticised online after video showed the youngsters hurling small stones meant to symbolise those killed in the wartime atrocity
A video of children throwing stones at the memorial to the Nanking massacre while their parents stand by has sparked a fierce debate in China.
The footage shows several children throwing the pebbles outside the memorial hall, built to commemorate more 300,000 civilians the Chinese authorities say were killed after Japanese troops captured the city, now known as Nanjing, during the Second Sino-Japanese war in 1937.
The small stones surrounding the hall are said to symbolise the bones of those killed.
The video was uploaded on to social media in China last Friday and, as of Wednesday, had been viewed over three million times.
Many internet users strongly criticised the parents of the children.