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The scars of Nanking : memories of a Japanese outrage I really really hate the Japanese. I was raped when I was 11years old. I tried to commit suicide three times afterwards, said Zhang Xiuhong, 81. She was recalling the six-week-long Rape of Nanking ,when the hundreds of thousands of Chinese were slaughtered by invading Japanese troops who breached the Ming Dynasty walls of the wartime capital. The assault began 70 years ago this week still known as the Chinese holocaust, although many here in this southeastern city, now called Nanjing, have failed to atone sufficiently for their wartime crimes. For their part, many conservative Janpanese believe the Chinese are exaggerating the scale of the incident. The Japanese invasion began on 10 December 1937 and the city fell three days later, signalling the start of the Rape of Nanking. Eyewitnesses, both Chinese and Western, say Chinese captives were tortured, burnt alive, buried alive, decapitated, bayoneted and shot masse. Up to 80,000 Chinese women and girls of all ages were raped and many more murdered or forced into sex slavery. The Chinese say the invaders killed 300,000 civilians, while many in Japan it is far less. A wartime tribunal put figure at 143,000. Many right-wing Japanese historians dispute whether the massacre ever took place at all and the event has enormous psychological scars in China, remaining a huge stumbling block in relations between Beijing and Tokyo. Its a raw tale here in Nanking. During a news conference to announce the details of a new memorial to the victims of the massacre, a Japanese journalist asked what the panel thought about concerns that the figure of 300,000 was exaggerated. Zhu Chengshan ,curator of the memorial, fielded the question:We want young people to think rationally and we want to direct the visitors to the memorial to see the historical issues in Sino-Japanese relations, said Mr. Zhu. The massacre is historical fact and is only one in a series of outrages perpetrated on Chi