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The great Tiananmen taboo
Guardian ^ | 6.02.09 | Ma Jian

Posted on 06/03/2009 6:52:34 PM PDT by Dr. Marten

It is 20 years since students and lecturers filled Tiananmen Square, demanding democracy, only to be crushed by tanks and fired on by the Chinese army. Banned novelist Ma Jian, who was there at the protests, returned to Beijing to find a country desperate to erase all memories of the thousands of innocent lives lost...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; communism; democracy; tiananmen
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1 posted on 06/03/2009 6:52:34 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
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To: Dr. Marten
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests - Tank Man
2 posted on 06/03/2009 6:53:38 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
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To: Dr. Marten

3 posted on 06/03/2009 6:57:56 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Dr. Marten
This is Radio Beijing. Please Remember June the Third 1989....

I heard this broadcast as it happened on my shortwave radio.

4 posted on 06/03/2009 7:12:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
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To: Vince Ferrer
It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years.

I remember when I finished my homework one night and heard the news that the commies were massacring the students. My heart just sank and I was numb with sadness and anger.

To think that 20 years on, we would see the end of our republic. And the reds didn't even need tanks to crush liberty here.

5 posted on 06/03/2009 7:12:37 PM PDT by manapua
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I remember too. I was so proud and amazed to see how brave all those young beautiful people were. Remember the Chinese Statue of Liberty? I couldn’t believe how many dead were left in the streets, and then the Chinese denial that it never happened.

How did all those parents explain to their countrymen why their children no longer existed?


6 posted on 06/03/2009 7:15:27 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: manapua
I have walked around Tiananmen Square. While in one sense it is kind of like walking around the Washington Mall, for all of us foreigners, it means completely something different than for the Chinese. Like no other place in China do you feel more distant from the Chinese people, because its like there is this "cone of silence" that drops over everyone. Chinese people walk around it like they don't know anything about it, and the rest of us kind of really wonder what the Chinese really know about those events.

The Simpsons cartoon to me captures the creepy mood there really well.

7 posted on 06/03/2009 7:27:17 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SunkenCiv

ping of interest


8 posted on 06/03/2009 8:08:12 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (To view the FR@Alabama ping list, click on my profile!)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Thanks.


9 posted on 06/04/2009 7:28:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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