What does the stone in front of the Nanjing Massacre Monument mean?

In order to commemorate the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, it is by no means to provoke hatred, but to remember history and avoid the recurrence of tragedies. The establishment of the monument will help people of all ethnic groups in Canada understand the tragic history of the Nanjing Massacre.

Accumulating the power of maintaining peace and defending justice will also help promote China-Canada friendship and build a harmonious world. The above figures are the death toll, warning our future generations.

The Nanjing Massacre refers to the large-scale massacre carried out by Japanese troops in Nanjing and its vicinity for several months during the period of China War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression 1937 to 1945 after the defeat of the Republic of China in the defending war in Nanjing and the fall of Nanjing.

Among them, Japanese war crimes include robbery, rape and massacre of a large number of civilians and prisoners of war. The scale of the massacre and the number of casualties are not recognized by the world, but it is generally believed that the death toll exceeds 300 thousand.