Paramilitary police hold wreaths during a rehearsal for a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the start of the Nanjing Massacre at the Nanjing Massacre Museum, Jiangsu province, December 12, 2007. Activities will be held on December 13 to commemorate the 1937 massacre, when Japanese troops killed more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and captives, raped more than 20,000 and burned down one-third of the urban buildings. [newsphoto]
