Remembering Tiananmen

[Yukimura Sanada]

Jun 5, 2010
Remembering Tiananmen

<!-- by line --> <!-- end by line --> TOURIST throngs and kite-flyers milled around Tiananmen Square on Friday under the watchful eye of security forces on alert for any attempt to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. In the semi-autonomous Chinese territory Hong Kong, thousands attended a candlelight vigil on Friday.

China's government has never fully disclosed what happened when the military crushed the weeks-long, student-led protests on the night of June 3-4, 1989, possibly killing thousands of students, activists and ordinary citizens. It has long maintained that the protests were a 'counterrevolutionary riot.' Public discussion of the events or any displays referencing them remain forbidden on the mainland. -- AP

 

[Yukimura Sanada]

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Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Friday, to mark the 21st anniversary of the June 4th Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. -- AP
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Thousands of people raise candles during a candlelight vigil. -- AP
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People raise candles during a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park. -- AP
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[Yukimura Sanada]

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A supporter of the victims, protesters of the 1989 Chinese government crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, holds candlelight vigil in front of a slogan 'Don't Forget June 4th' to commemorate the 21st anniversary. -- AP
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Supporters of the victims hold candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary. -- AP
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A man holds a leaflet featuring the Goddess of Democracy during a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Friday. -- AP

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[Yukimura Sanada]

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A replica of the Goddess of Democracy is moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong after a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong. -- REUTERS
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A replica of the Goddess of Democracy is displayed as protesters take part in a candlelight vigil. -- REUTERS
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Protesters take part in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park June 4, 2010 to mark the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. -- REUTERS
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[kensington]

Re: Remembering The Tankman

Flashback... 1989

Remembering The Tank Man


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But rest assured, all these were propagandas perpetrated by western powers
to break the rise of China, Human rights was at the distant third in the equations. #2 was the the disbursment of spheres of influence. First World's capitalism at work, wickedly... And they lost...