HARBIN, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- As the fifth national memorial ceremony for Nanjing Massacre victims arrives Thursday, a wall recording horrific crimes committed by Japanese troop's Unit 731 was unveiled in the Unit 731 Museum in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

The wall reveals the lethal human experimentation and germ warfare committed by Unit 731, a Japanese biological and chemical warfare unit during World War II (WWII).

There are 25 excerpts of testimonies on the wall including spoken or written statements of germ warfare criminals, veterans of Unit 731 and relatives of the victims.

"The testimonies indicate that the acts of atrocity against humanity committed by the Japanese invaders are an organized crime and moreover, a state crime," said Jin Shicheng, a researcher with the Unit 731 Museum.

Unit 731 was a top-secret biological and chemical warfare research base established in Harbin as the nerve center of Japanese biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during WWII.

At least 3,000 people were used for human experimentation by Unit 731 and more than 300,000 people in China were killed by Japanese biological weapons. Enditem

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