China seeks UNESCO listing for Nanjing Massacre, 'comfort women' (3/6)

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on June 10, 2014 that China will file an application with the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to list documents related to Nanjing Massacre and ”comfort women” in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.The photo shows people visit the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The Nanjing Massacre was an atrocity committed by the Japanese militarism. More than 300,000 civilians and soldiers died in the massacre, which began on December 13, 1937 and lasted for six weeks.[Photo: China News Service / Yang Bo]