Students hold a banner that reads "Remembering
History and Treasuring Peace" in front of the Museum of the Anti-Japanese
War in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, September 18, 2003.
Today is the 72nd anniversary of the "September 18th Incident," when
Japanese troops launched a sudden attack on the Chinese army in Shenyang.
[newsphoto.com.cn]
On the evening 10:20 of September 18, 1931,
the Japanese Kanto Army blew up the Liutiaohu Railway of the South
Manchuria Railway in Shenyang, northen China, yet they fabricated that
Chinese army did it. Under this excuse, they cannoned Beidaying Battalion
of the Northeast Army of Kuomintang, and attacked Shenyang, launched the
"Huanggutun Incident" which shocked China and the whole world. This is the
historical "9.18 Incident", which resulted in Japan's massive invasion in
Northeastern China and later the whole country in 1937. [Xinhua]
Broken Calendar Monument for "9.18 Incident"
built in 1991 in Shenyang. [Xinhua]
Chinese civilians killed by Japanese soldiers
in "9.18 Incident". [Xinhua]
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