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1st LD: Xi pays homage to Chinese martyrs killed in NATO bombing

Xinhua, June 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese President Xi Jinping paid homage to the Chinese martyrs killed in the NATO bombing of the former Chinese embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in May 1999, after arriving here Friday for a state visit to Serbia.

Xi and his Serbian counterpart, Tomislav Nikolic, as well as other Chinese and Serbian officials, laid flowers at a new cenotaph engraved with "Honor Martyrs, Cherish Peace" on the site where the destroyed embassy once stood.

The three martyrs were journalists Shao Yunhuan of Xinhua News Agency, and Xu Xinghu and his wife Zhu Ying, of the Guangming Daily newspaper.

After the mourning, the leaders attended a ceremony to lay the cornerstone for a Chinese culture center to be built on the embassy site. Endi