On June 4, 1989, Xiao Jie, a journalism student at Renmin University of China, was killed by the hail of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bullets fired at the students by the Chinese military during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Xiao Jie’s parents found a farewell note to them in their son’s belongings left behind at the ...
The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 is one of the bloodiest assaults on a student movement. Hundreds of unarmed civilians were brutally attacked by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) when the protestors asked for their nation to be a democracy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has censored the topic to such an extent that not ...
The June 4th incident (the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre) is about to have its 30-year anniversary. There is still no democracy and freedom in sight for mainland China, but Martin Lee Chu-ming aged 80, said: “It doesn’t matter if I don’t see democracy in my lifetime. Democracy will definitely come to China.” Martin, the founding ...
During the 1989 student protests conducted at Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government initiated violent repression of the protestors. Today, remembered as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, more than 10,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the incident and resulting crackdown. Discussion about the Tiananmen Square Massacre is severely restricted in China. Many Chinese often wonder how ...
The year 2019 is an important one for China. It was 30 years ago that the Tiananmen Square massacre took place. Sixty years ago, the Tibetan Buddhists were crushed by the Chinese army and their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama had to flee to India. Seventy years ago, communist China was established. Being an important ...
The Tiananmen Square Massacre took place on June 4, 1989. It was the culmination of the Chinese government’s crackdown on protests for political and economic reform in China. In 1989, on the day of the funeral of Hu Yaobang, a martyr for the political cause, thousands of students gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand democratic ...
Crowds gathered in semi-autonomous Hong Kong to remember the victims of China’s Tiananmen Square Massacre (the June 4th incident) of 1989 and fight against authoritarian rule. Tens of thousands have been coming together at Victoria Park since the 1990s, with their central message being the democratization of China. The organizers, the Hong Kong Alliance in ...
This year is the 28th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre. The Hong Kong Alliance continued to hold its annual candlelight vigil rally at Victoria Park at Causeway Bay. They invited Lin Yaoqiang, a former member of the student movement, to come forward to give a speech on what he had witnessed on that ...
June 4 is the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre where untold numbers of pro-democracy activists were killed by soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. Yet awareness of what occurred in 1989 is unknown to many of China’s youth, says Wei Jingsheng, a veteran activist best known for his involvement in China’s democracy movement. ...
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