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The Imperial Japanese Army carried out a terrorist massacre of Chinese civilians in Nanjing.[1]
State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism which a state conducts against another state or against its own citizens.[2][3][4][5]
^"Nanjing remembers massacre victims". BBC News. 2007-12-13. Archived from the original on 2007-12-25. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
^Aust, Anthony (2010). Handbook of International Law (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-521-13349-4. Archived from the original on 2024-03-29. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
^Cite error: The named reference britannica was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Selden & So, 2003: p. 4. Archived 2024-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
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