China's State Archives Administration has released a video with evidence documenting Japanese troops' crimes against humanity during their invasion to China. Li Xiuying, who died several years ago, was one of the survivors shown. In the video, she recounted her experience.

A 19-year-old woman appears in the footage. She was Li Xiuying, 7 months' pregnant at the time. She was hiding in a basement in the international safe zone in Nanjing. But there was no safety there.

A 17-minute video capturing the torture of Nanjing civilians by Japanese soldiers. The cameraman was John Magee. Then 53 years old, the US missionary risked his life to record history.

A 19-year-old woman appears in the footage. She was Li Xiuying, 7 months' pregnant at the time. She was hiding in a basement in the international safe zone in Nanjing. But there was no safety there.

"Several Japanese soldiers came to the safe zone in the early morning. They pulled out all the young women they saw from the shelters. Then I thought, I would rather die than be humiliated," Li said.

After fighting to resist rape, she was bayoneted, dozens of times.

"The doctor told me I have 37 wounds all over me. The most serious one was on my belly. One day later, I miscarried. A 7-month-old boy was gone," Li said.

Liu devoted her remaining years to revealing the truth of the Nanjing Massacre, which Japanese right-wing politicians have long denied.

"They dare not acknowledge the Nanjing Massacre, because too many bad things were done in Nanjing," Li said.

Li appeared as an eyewitness, in 1946, when Japanese war criminals were tried by the Far East International Military Tribunal.

In her late life, she also went to Japan to attended pro-peace gatherings and told her story to the public.

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