On April 15, 1989, following the death of Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a memorial held by students in Tiananmen Square quickly escalated into the largest democratic movement in Chinese history. From the night of June 3 to the early hours of June 4, CCP troops committed a ...
Voice of America (VOA) reported that the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 is still a sensitive subject in China. Recently, the VOA in Washington interviewed several young Chinese to find out what June 4 means to them. Su, a young woman from Mongolia, has a master’s degree and currently works in the Southern Mongolian Human Rights ...
In a recent development, a famous statue entitled the Pillar of Shame for commemorating the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre was dismantled and removed from the University of Hong Kong. This incident has resulted in widespread backlash and criticism. The statue represented several corpses piled up together. The 1989 event marked a black day in China’s ...
The history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is marked by the massive use of violence against the Chinese people as a means of total control. This may appear like a line from a cold war propaganda film, but it’s based on historical events, of which five of the worst atrocities committed by the CCP ...
Why have Hong Kong people persisted in mourning June 4th for 32 years? Yuan Gongyi, a Hong Kong industrialist, said that the entire human race shares a universal value, and the maintenance of this value makes no distinction between races and national boundaries. Universal values have no borders or race Yuan Gongyi pointed out: “Anyone ...
Julian O’Halloran was a BBC reporter in China covering the events around June 4, 1989, commonly known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. O’Halloran was among those foreign journalists who managed to cover the student-led mass pro-democracy protests held in the Square since April that year. The communist regime imposed martial law in late May. Not ...
Last year, tens of thousands of Hong Kongers publicly commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre despite a ban on such efforts by police officials citing health concerns due to the pandemic. The ban has now caught up with dozens of activists, among them Joshua Wong, who, with several others, was sentenced to jail on May ...
On April 16, nine Hong Kong veteran pro-democracy activists and lawmakers, including the founder of Next Media Lai Zhiying, also known as Jimmy Lai, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 8 to 18 months for their participation in pro-democracy protests in August 2019. Jimmy Lai, who has been in jail since last December ...
A UK auction house that listed a rare Tiananmen Square wristwatch “given to troops by the Communist Party Beijing Committee and Beijing Municipal Government” with a green-helmeted soldier on the face along with the words “to commemorate the quelling of the rebellion” had to withdraw the item from its online catalog following reactions on social ...
Thirty-one years ago, in the early morning of June 4, 1989, the Chinese Communist tanks ruthlessly rolled over the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) opened fire on the unarmed students and civilian pro-democracy demonstrators. Thousands of innocent lives perished in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, along with their ideals of ...
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