Wang Xuan, leader of a Chinese plaintiff group seeking compensation from the Japanese government for damages stemming from the use of germ warfare during Japan's aggression war on China, adresses a mourning activity in Chongshan Village of Yiwu City, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 5, 2014. An activity commemorating victims killed in Japan's germ warfare 72 years ago was held in Chongshan Village on Saturday, which marked the Qingming Festival, a traditional Chinese festival to pay respects to late relatives. In 1942, the Japanese army conducted a large-scale plague warfare in Yiwu, which killed 1319 local citizens, among whom were 405 villagers from Chongshan Village. Since 1997, a group of 180 Chinese plaintiffs from Zhejiang and central China's Hunan Province started demanding for fair judgment of their accusation of Japan for its crime in germ warfare. Yet they lost after Japanese supreme court made its final judgment in 2007. Until now 101 of the 180 plaintiffs have passed away. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)
