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A reminder of another Pro-Democracy movement.
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Some week - The AIDS Conference in Montreal and the crackdown in China. Not very optimistic on both fronts this June week in 1989.Some week - The AIDS Conference in Montreal and the crackdown in China. Not very... more
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It's been an eventful few few days in the Middle-East and this video shows how Egypt gets its Tiananmen square moment when a man bravely stands in front of armored vehicle. Skip forward to 1:20 and watch him make a stand.It's been an eventful few few days in the Middle-East and this video shows how... more
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Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has gone on trial in Beijing on charges of "inciting subversion of state power" after being imprisoned since 2008 for writing a document calling for political reform in China.
Liu has been an activist for 20 years and although his name is not widely know within China, in other countries he is recognised as a prominent critic of the Chinese government.
Human rights groups, Nobel prize winners, the EU and US have all called for his release saying the trial is politically motivated whilst China refuse to allow them to interfere with internal affairs. None of the western diplomats who waited outside the courtroom or Mr Liu's wife were allowed inside to witness any of the trial.
Mr Liu's wife has previously expressed that she has "no hope whatsoever" for the outcome with many others suggesting that his fate has been predetermined.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8427576.stmChinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has gone on trial in Beijing on charges of "inciting... more
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We've all somehow been there, even though we've never set foot there: Tiananmen Square, The Square of Heavenly Peace. This is -- as they say -- China's "money shot." Andreea & I were on a very tight schedule which almost caused us to miss our Shanghai connecting flight, but these were some the moving images we snagged as we traversed from north to south along the expanse of this Beijing landmark, from the Forbidden City to Mao's Mausoleum. Sorry I'm mumbling a bit, but the capital was positively freezing on this day. Wind gusts and the like. Thanks again for watching!We've all somehow been there, even though we've never set foot there:... more
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China detained several activist ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the country.China detained several activist ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the... more
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One–party autocracy has its drawbacks, “But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.”One–party autocracy has its drawbacks, “But when it is led by a reasonably... more
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If you’re looking for the creme de la creme of vacation spots, a palace is right up your alley.If you’re looking for the creme de la creme of vacation spots, a palace is right... more
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Massive protests, government crackdown, and media blackout—Tehran today sounds like Tiananmen Square two decades ago. But Dan Rather, who covered the China massacre, says the shift in the media landscape over the last two decades means there’s no comparison.
When protests against the official results of Iran’s presidential election were accompanied, almost immediately, by a media crackdown, thoughts turned inevitably to Tiananmen Square. On June 4 of this year, the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown of the student protests in Beijing. It was a milestone that prompted me to go back over my memories of that time, of covering the remarkable student movement from within the square for CBS News, and of having the government pull the plug on our coverage on the evening of May 20, 1989.
With these memories fresher than they had been for years, the Iranian government’s move to control information within Iran and the information that left Iran brought reflexive associations and deep concerns.Massive protests, government crackdown, and media blackout—Tehran today sounds... more
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of the crushing of the Chinese pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, this Tuesday night FRONTLINE is re-airing filmmaker Antony Thomas' 2006 report, "The Tank Man," which attempts to solve an enduring mystery:
Who was the lone, unarmed man who stepped in front of a column of Chinese Army tanks back in June, 1989? What happened to him afterward? And how did Tiananmen help redefine China's view of itself, and its place in the world?
In this definitive account, Thomas uses eyewitness and expert accounts to retell the amazing events of the spring of 1989, and to sort truth from myth about the man who became an icon of the struggle for freedom around the world before disappearing into history. Thomas also attempts to understand how China's leadership charted a course through the tumult, then remade the country into a global economic superpower in subsequent years.
The most telling scenes in the film may be those in which the legacy of Tiananmen seems least clear: At one point, Thomas shows the image of "Tank Man" to undergraduates at Beijing University, but none of them recognize it.
There are conflicting reports about whether images of "Tank Man" continue to be blocked across China. But, as we recently learned, if you attempt to watch this FRONTLINE film from inside the country, you're sure to find yourself out of luck--your connection will be blocked by Chinese censors, and your Internet browser temporarily shut down.
For more on the current situation in China, listen to FRONTLINE's new podcast, featuring an interview with The New Yorker's Beijing correspondent, Evan Osnos. The podcast also includes an interview with filmmaker Thomas who discusses the making of this film, including the moment he showed "Tank Man" to the university students.To mark the twentieth anniversary of the crushing of the Chinese pro-democracy... more
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His Holiness's Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
Published: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square students’ democracy movement, along with others who take an interest in Chinese affairs, I respectfully honour those who died expressing the popular demand for the government to be more accountable to its people.
The students involved in the Tiananmen Square movement were neither anti-communist nor anti-socialist. Their speaking out in defence of the Chinese people’s constitutional rights, in favour of democracy, and taking a stand against corruption, truly conformed to the underlying beliefs of the Chinese Communist government. This was confidently stated by the then Party chief Zhao Ziyang. Therefore, the forthcoming 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China presents a great opportunity to review the events of June 4,1989.
Great changes have taken place in the People’s Republic of China since 1989. Today, it is a global economic power poised to become a superpower. It is my hope that the Chinese leaders have the courage and far-sightedness to embrace more truly egalitarian principles and pursue a policy of greater accommodation and tolerance of diverse views. A policy of openness and realism can lead to greater trust and harmony within China and enhance its international standing as a truly great nation.
THE DALAI LAMA
June 4, 2009His Holiness's Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square... more
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Twenty years ago he was the ultimate symbol of a peaceful democratic protest that went terribly, fatally wrong: a lone Chinese man in a simple white button-down shirt, carrying two plastic shopping bags, staring down a column of tanks.
"Who was he? He was Edmond Dantes. And he was my father and my mother... my brother... my friend. He was you... and me. He was all of us."
Be A Hero!Twenty years ago he was the ultimate symbol of a peaceful democratic protest that went... more
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Free Cuba Foundation co-president Julio Menache reads out text of the statement
June 3, 2009
20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE STATEMENT
We honor the victims, many of them students, who sacrificed their lives for freedom, democracy, and reform twenty years ago in China.
We join with our Cuban brothers and sisters who one year ago paid tribute to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre at the monument to the Chinese fallen in the Cuban War of Independence in Havana on June 4, 2008.
Like our counterparts on the island as students we feel a connection to those Chinese students who exercised their fundamental rights to associate and speak freely in defense of democracy and human rights. Many paid the highest price for freedom with their very lives.
On June 3-4, 1989 the Chinese military extrajudicially executed thousands of unarmed students and workers violently crushing the non-violent student initiated mass demonstrations. We will never forget this heinous crime.
Twenty years later China remains one of the most repressive regimes on the planet. Christians, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners and people of other faiths are systematically persecuted. Freedom of expression and association are systematically denied and censorship is ever present.
We repudiate the brutal actions of the government of communist China and call on the civilized world to hold accountable all those responsible for this atrocity, that a full investigation with the participation of international human rights organizations be carried out, and that justice be provided for the Chinese people slaughtered twenty years ago inside and outside of Tiananmen Square and their families.
We call on the democracies of the world to stand with the Chinese people in their desire to be free and have their human rights respected recognizing that the advancement of Chinese relations with the democracies of the world depends on the advancement of human rights in China.
Finally, we call for the immediate release of all Chinese prisoners of conscience and in particular those still imprisoned for taking part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations that remain imprisoned twenty years later such as Li Yujun, Zhu Gengsheng, Shi Xuezhi, Li Zhixin, Chang Jingqiang, Wu Chunqi, Yang Pu and Miao Deshun.
Miami, Florida June 3, 2009
1. Julio A. Menache, Free Cuba Foundation, Florida International University 2011
2. Juan Carlos Sanchez, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 2011
3. Pedro Ross, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 2009
4. Susana Navajas, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 2010
5. Jennifer Grau, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 2009
6. John Suarez, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 1996
7. Neri Ann Martinez, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 2005
8. Rebecca Martinez-Arguello, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 2007
9. Isaac Martinez, Free Cuba Foundation, FIU 2006
10. CAUSA: Students United for a Free Cuba, University of Miami
11. Silvia Sarasua, Miami Friends of Tibet
12. Jian Hu, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
13. Sherwood Liu, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
14. Linda Li, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
15. Nancy Xia, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
16. Victoria Wu, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
17. Yanling Zhang , Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
18. Edie Bassen, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
19. Regina Finnegan, PhD, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
20. Marcus Green, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
21. Kay Harmon, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
22. Diana Crouch, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
23. Kent McKinney, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
24. David W. Lee, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
25. Paulene Jasurek, Falun Dafa Practitioners Association of FL
27. Prof. Antonio Romero Piriz Red Uruguaya por Democracia para Cuba
28. Aramis L. Perez, Young Cubans in Action
29. Belkis Landa-Gonzalez, Ed.D, OTR/L Miami, FL
30. Tina Giamei-Valera Florida Tech Univ.Free Cuba Foundation co-president Julio Menache reads out text of the statement... more
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The Free Cuba Foundation FIU, FIU Students for a Free Tibet, and UM CAUSA: Students United for a Free Cuba, Falun Gong, and Miami Friends of Tibet presented the documentary "Tank Man" holding a discussion ending in a candlelight vigil reading off a partial list of victims with Cui Jian's Nothing to My Name playing in the background on June 3, 2009 and a moment of silence that ended at 10:31pm. A minute after the tanks entered the square and shooting began 20 years ago.The Free Cuba Foundation FIU, FIU Students for a Free Tibet, and UM CAUSA: Students... more
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She offers an interesting overview of US policy from George HW Bush to the Obama Administration.She offers an interesting overview of US policy from George HW Bush to the Obama... more
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According to the Financial Times, copies of the International Herald Tribune and the South China Morning Post featuring coverage of Tiananmen were shredded and that "BBC News broadcasts were blacked out on Monday night. Last Saturday's edition of the Financial Times, which contained an interview with Bao Tong, the most prominent Tiananmen-era dissident still residing in China, was either not delivered to subscribers or censored."According to the Financial Times, copies of the International Herald Tribune and the... more
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Yesterday at the University of Miami, Tenzin Gayden, Students for a Free Tibet expressed his "solidarity and understand your feeling for the Chinese brothers and sisters who went through all this trouble twenty years ago. I am third generation
Tibetan and I speak freely in front of you, but in Tibet there voices are being suppressed - they do not have the right to speak they do not have any human rights."
The Free Cuba Foundation FIU, FIU Students for a Free Tibet, and UM CAUSA: Students United for a Free Cuba, presented the documentary "Tank Man" at the Whitten Learning Center Room 192 at the University of Miami on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 holding a discussion on human rights in China which called for a human rights centered not commerce centered approach. This followed a candlelight vigil which began playing two songs (Nothing to my name and Piece of red cloth) that were played in Tiananmen Square days prior to the massacre by Chinese rocker Cui Jian while a partial list of the names of the victims were read off and a moment of silence coinciding with the start of the military assault on the square at 10:30pm..Yesterday at the University of Miami, Tenzin Gayden, Students for a Free Tibet... more
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Their demonstrations were centered on the historic Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where the iconic image of a lone man standing in front of a tank was beamed around the world. Now in an apparent act of contrition, the government has teamed up with McDonald's to commemorate the brutally crushed rebellion with a new representation of the scene.
http://thestupidtimes.blogspot.com/2009/06/china-marks-tiananmen-square-with.htmlTheir demonstrations were centered on the historic Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where... more
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Perhaps China's communist government have a soft spot for Rihanna or Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. That can be the only explanation for their bizarre attempt to censor CNN's John Vause as he tried to film a report from Tiananmen Square earlier.
Kudos to the authorities for making such a serious topic as that infamous massacre twenty years ago, so inadvertently comical. Harry Hill eat your heart out!
Hit the link (as I couln't embed it!) - this is a 'must see' videoPerhaps China's communist government have a soft spot for Rihanna or Gene Kelly... more
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