Václav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic, visited the Nanjing  Massacre Memorial Museum on the afternoon of May 11. He was accompanied by  Vladimír TOM？íK, the Czech ambassador to China, Robert Hanc, General Manager of  the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and some others.

After touring the museum, the former president went to the memorial site  where he stood in silent tribute and laid flower baskets.

In the Meditation Hall, he inscribed on the message book as follows: This  museum touched me a lot. We should not forget history so as to avoid the  recurrence of anti-human atrocities.