視頻 VIDEO 習近平抨擊日本在盧溝橋事變77週年儀式 東京忽視“這樣的恥辱”Xi Jinping blasts Japan at 77th anniversary ceremony of Marco Polo Bridge Incident - President calls it such a shame Tokyos ignoring the loss of tens of thousands of lives during the war President Xi Jinping condemned Japan’s wartime aggression and the attempts of “a minority group” to revise history to mark the 77th anniversary of the start of Sino-Japanese war, as Beijing steps up its campaign against Japan’s lifting of post-war ban on military fighting overseas. Xi and another top Politburo Standing Committee member, Yu Zhengsheng, joined more than 1,000 people this morning at a high-profile ceremony to commemorate the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, or the Lugou Bridge Incident, which sparked the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War, which later became part of the second world war. Accompanied by two war veterans – one Nationalist and the other Communist, Xi unveiled a statue entitled Medal of Independence and Freedom, a metal awarded to Sino-Japanese war veterans in the People’s Liberation Army. Speaking to an audience including officials, war veterans and primary school pupils, Xi called on Japan to confess its wartime atrocities. “It is such a shame that a minority group of people still ignore the loss of tens of thousands of lives during the war, denounce or revise its wartime atrocities, hinder mutual trust, and create regional tensions,” Xi said. “No one can revise history and truth. Chinese people who have made great sacrifices [during the war] would never allow anyone to play down its wartime atrocities.” The pupils – wearing red scarves, a symbol of the Young Pioneers of China – also vowed to “never forget the shame of the nation” after his speech. Xi visited the museum of Sino-Japanese War at Lugou Bridge after the ceremony. He unveiled a new commemorative sculpture based on a military medal at the Museum of the War of the Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xinhua reported. In 1937, Japanese forces that had been in China’s northeast since 1905 provoked a clash with Chinese soldiers by trying to enter the city of Wanping near Beijing. The fighting is regarded as the first battle of the second Sino-Japanese war, which lasted until Japan’s defeat by the Allies in 1945. Last week, China posted documents online that it said were personal accounts of wartime atrocities committed by Japanese in China. https://facebook/photo.php?v=10152239439786984
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