Archive for June 4th, 2009
Tiananmin Square massacre – 20 years on.
The Tiananmen Square Massacre was a defining moment. or a reference point, of human rights abuse in modern history and, for the sake of our younger generation, the story needs to be retold.
The Epoch Times has published an article in memory of the event that reminds us all of the brutality of totalitarian regimes.
Basically, it goes like this.
On April 14, 1989 in Beijing, students began gathering to honor the death of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded former general secretary of the Communist Party. The students began calling for a number of reforms of the Chinese Communist Party, and received wide support in Beijing and around the country. Similar protests spread to 400 cities throughout China. On June 4, the Chinese regime used the People’s Liberation Army and their tanks to put down the protests. No accurate accounting of the number killed has been possible. Thousands are believed to have died on Tiananmen Square and in surrounding neighborhoods in Beijing.
For years, the Chinese Government refused to admit to the carnage and it was only through the Internet and the start of blogging that the rest of the world ever got to learn of it.
Read the chilling eye witness accounts of what happened in Tiananmin Square on 4 June 1989. An abuse of human rights at its worst.
