World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre
World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre
Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion
Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion
There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China’s People’s Liberation Army in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s central plaza, on 4 June 1989.
The date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, and the Chinese government employs extensive and increasingly sophisticated resources to censor any discussion or acknowledgment of it inside China. Internet censors scrub even the most obscure references to the date from online spaces, and activists in China are often put under increased surveillance or sent on enforced “holidays” away from Beijing.
New research from human rights workers has found that the sensitive date also sees heightened transnational repression of Chinese government critics overseas by the government and its proxies.
This is just my personal experience:
~I was talking to a few young Chinese. They were after born after the massacre happened.~
"Why are Hong Kong people are so full of themselves and rebellious? They think they are better? (Derogatory comments....", cheating among themselves, happily.
I couldn't help and interrupted, "Some young promising Hong Kong students were murdered, beaten and kidnapped under the mainland China. You can't blame them for not being defensive."
Immediately they resorted to their memorised response, "Do you have any resources to back up what you said? The official death count was zero."
Of course there was no "official" news resources. China suppresses the news media.
"It is the same as Tiananmen massacre. You won't find any "official resources " but everyone knows people were killed."
Another one retorted, "The official number is zero. What official resources you have to backup your claim?"
It was useless to talk anymore at that moment. I left. My encounter probably would be on their "report."
Everyone should read this
https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs
Was genuinely thinking of walking in front of Trump’s military parade.
downvotes are from tankies
Narrator: “It did.”
Oh is this the terrible bad country we shipped our entire industrial base to?
Maybe I'll take Taiwan's word on this one...
Whatever the US says, you just know it's posturing hypocritical bullshit
Never forget when the CIA organised an armed color revolution which resulted into people shooting at the Chinese military. The clashes outsider of the square, not on it as the name suggests, resulted in a total of around 300 deaths.
Tiananmen has to be the dumbest propaganda pount because it is so incredibly easy to debunk for anyone who has basic access to a search machine. The CIA literally admitted they backed the riots.
The sheer hypocrisy of posting this while the American government is arming a live streamed genocide with over 60.000, likely more than 200.00p killed.
As an American I think it's helpful to put this into some sort of perspective.
Things the US won't forget:
- Tiananmen Square (thousands dead)
Things the US will forget:
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Korean War (3mil civilian dead)
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Vietnam War (2mil civilian dead)
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Iraqi War (1mil civilian dead)
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Violent overthrow of East Timor (widely considered a genocide)
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Violent overthrow of Afghanistan (twice, over 1 mil dead)
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Violent overthrow of Nicaragua
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Violent overthrow of Grenada
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Violent overthrow of Panama
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Violent overthrow of Libya
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Coup d'etat of Guatemala
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Coup d'etat of Iran
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Failed Coup d'etat of Syria
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Failed Coup d'etat of Indonesia
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Many failed Coup d'etat attempts on Cuba
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Coup d'etat of Congo
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Coup d'etat of Laos
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Coup d'etat of the Dominican Republic
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Coup d'etat of Iraq
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Coup d'etat of Brazil
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Successful Coup d'etat of Indonesia (1 mil dead)
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Coup d'etat of Chile
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Multiple Coup d'etat of Bolivia
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Coup d'etat of Haiti
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Multiple Coup d'etat attempts on Venezuela
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Coup d'etat of Palestine
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Mass civilian casualties, destabilization of many governments, people subject to a lifetime of torture without a trial, all under the War on Terror
This list could be so much longer, but I gotta get to work.
"Never forget" is great and all but from a German perspective it seems to not be enough. It is much more important to make sure the same or very similar things do not happen again, not by China and not by any other nation. Otherwise you end up like we did here in Germany where decades of "never forget" lead to very similar sentiments being expressed by a new major party but since things are slightly different (e.g. the "never forget" was always phrased to be about Jews, this is more about foreigners in general) people seem to allow themselves to ignore them.
I’m surprised trump didnt try to give Taiwan away by tweet yet
Not contesting there was a violent crackdown, but didn’t the video for this moment end with the tank just stopping the entire time, the briefcase guy climbing onto the tank, then getting shuffled away by fellow civilians?
Everyday we see way worse shit happening on the streets of the US. Somehow the crackdown back then on anti-communist academics is an enshrined moment, but people on our streets getting arrested, detained, or killed is just business as usual.
And we also act like our country doesn’t call academics “indoctrinated”, beat the living crap out of both students and academics, and doesn’t want to kill them. Amazing.
The US won't "forget" unless China pays the Dipshit-in-chief some payoff money. He'll then EO that it never happened.
Let's not forget Faris Odeh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faris_Odeh
A picture of Odeh standing alone in front of a tank, with a stone in his hand and arm bent back to throw it, was taken by a photojournalist from the Associated Press on 29 October 2000. Ten days later, on 8 November, Odeh was again throwing stones at Karni when he was shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier.
You could pick so many more things to criticize China for especially from its past, verifiable events, yet the west always picks Tiananmen Square, making sure to pick the image of the guy standing in front of the tank, but somehow always forgets to show the video of the guy climbing on top of the tank, asking soldiers to turn around to where the protesters are, and somehow forget mentioning that literally half the casualties were soldiers that were set ablaze. Even diplomatic cables at the time either leaked or declassified prove that.