In December 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army swept into Nanjing, China's capitol.  Within six weeks, more than 300,000 unarmed Chinese civilians were systematically tortured and murdered.  Many became live victims of the Japanese soldiers' samurai sword practice.  Still more were machine gunned to death--their remains doused with gasoline and burned.  Some 80,000 women were raped.  The world has waited long enough for Japan to admit to its World War II war crimes.  To the aged victims of these atrocities: justice delayed is justice denied.

As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War II, the Nanjing massacre has become a symbol of the Japanese Imperial army's monstrous brutality and savage cruelty in World War II.  Please join us in remembrance of the Rape of Nanjing, meet genocide victims, and hear the continuing struggle for peace, justice and human rights.  Winners of the first Iris Chang Memorial Essay Contest will be honored at this event.