Meitangang

2005-7-28 14:15:46

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This stele is located in the opposite of Nanjing Circuitry and Equipment Factory.

Meitangang is one of the sites of Nanjing Massacre by Japanese invaders. On December 17, 1937, Japanese army searched for and arrested Chinese unarmed soldiers and civilians adding up to over 3000. They put them at Meitangang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and shot them in machine-gun. The wounded but not dead were all detained in the nearby thatching and burned alive.  Forty-five employees from capital electricity factory died in this massacre.

The victims: over thirty thousand.

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