Friday, December 12, 2014

Trash Talk From The World's Leader
In Slavery & Occupation

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a memorial ceremony in Nanjing
marking the 77th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre on December 13, 2014.
Photo: AFP/Won Hung Lo
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday morning unleashed some of his sharpest rhetoric to date against Japan's wartime atrocities in China more than seven decades ago at a sombre ceremony commemorating the Nanking massacre.

Xi led officials gathered Saturday morning at a memorial hall in the former national capital, now called Nanjing, where 77 years ago invading Japanese soldiers slaughtered more than 300,000 people, mostly unresisting civilians, according to Chinese estimates.

Calling the massacre "a horrific crime against humanity and a very dark page in the history of mankind," the Chinese president vowed in his speech that "history shall not be altered with the passing of time, and facts not erased by crafty denial."

"The responsibility of the war lay with a small number of militarists, not the people. But people should at no time forget the heinous crimes committed by the invaders," Xi said.

"Any dismissive attitudes towards the history of the invasion, and any comments glorifying the war, are harmful to peace and justice of the human race," said Xi, in an apparent jab against Japanese politicians whose annual visits to the Yasukuni shrine and occasional comments downplaying wartime history have incurred China's wrath.
One word (two syllables) you insufferably self-righteous prick: Tibet.

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