Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Tiananmen Square Massacre at 31: Bearing Witness and Standing with Hong Kong

#RememberingTiananmen


Thirty one years ago the Chinese Pro-Democracy Movement that had taken to the streets in April of 1989 was violently crushed by the Chinese communist dictatorship beginning on the evening of June 3, 1989. By dawn on June 4, 1989 scores of demonstrators had been shot and killed or run over and crushed by tanks of the so-called "People's Liberation Army." A 2017 declassified British diplomatic cable revealed that "at least 10,000 people were killed. The Chinese Communist regime still defends committing this massacre.

The Chinese Communist regime still refuses to apologize for the June 3rd-4th, 1989 massacre when thousands were killed on the orders of the dictatorship.

For thirty years tens of thousands of citizens in Hong Kong would gather in June to remember and bear witness for the victims of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Looking the other way at the crimes visited on tens of millions of Chinese nationals is now threatening many more lives around the world following the coronavirus coverup and the active complicity of the World Health Organization. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was right "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."


The failure to hold China to account has led to a global pandemic that is killing hundreds of thousands of people and crashed the global economy.

This year, for the first time, using the pretext of COVID-19 the gathering to remember in Hong Kong was banned.


We in the free world will continue to bear witness, demand justice and stand with Hong Kong.


1 comment:

  1. How horrible that the American president is a man who praised China for that massacre.

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