Remembering Tiananmen Square

Thousands of people in Hong Kong participated in a demonstration honoring the anniversary of the crushing of the June 4,1989 pro-democracy movement on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, reported BBC (Tiananmen protests marked). The march was organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China not only to remember the events from 15 years ago but also to remind the people of Hong Kong how frail is the democracy they still enjoy.

For a first-hand account of the Tiananmen events by the Canadian Globe and Mail correspondent Jan Wong, read the second last chapter of Red China Blues. (If you ask me, you should read the whole book by this talented writer. It is a story of China from Mao to post-Tiananmen.)

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