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China's Rulers Push Party Role Before WWII Anniversary

Wen Yunfu (L), 96, veteran of the Second Sino-Japanese War, sips a beverage after being interviewed in Yangquan, in China's northern Shanxi province (Credit: AFP)

An elderly Chinese war veteran's shin still bears the mark of a bullet wound he suffered when fighting the Japanese as a teenager, a year before the end of World War II.

Eighty years on, Li Jinshui's scar remains as testimony to the bravery of Chinese troops in a conflict that killed millions of their people.

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