We have a dream, it will not die, remember that!
No matter how it is beaten, freedom will flower.
We have a dream it will not die, it comes from our heart, remember that!
Lyrics from Freedom Flower
We are the only place in China that allows for any memorial activity regarding the events of June 4th 1989 in Beijing.
Police kept China’s symbolic heart of Tiananmen Square free of demonstrators yesterday, detaining at least 16 people. The middle-aged men and women were arrested as security forces tried to block public commemorations for people killed. More
82 000 people of Hong Kong gathered in Victoria Park this evening to commemorate the fallen heroes of the 1989 democratic movement in China.
We are asking for:
-A Revaluation of June 4th and end its counter-revolutionary status.
-Release of imprisoned democratic advocates.
-Bring those responsible for the massacre to justice.
-Return the Power to the People and End One Party Rule.
-Creation of a Democratic China
A replica of the goddess of democracy and the momument to fallen heros was erected in the center of the eight football fields, and wreaths were laid, for those who do not have a memorial. Those attending followed with three bows of respect. On the stage were four characters reading: Return Power to the People.
And as each year, videos of democratic activists speaking are smuggled out of China and played for those attending. This year those who spoke included: Wang Dan a student leader imprisoned for six years and now on medical parole in the US, Professor Ding Zillin of Tiananmen Mothers, who was arrested for a week and placed in jail at the beginning of April and currently under house arrest, and Chen Zi Ming, who was released after 15 years in prison this January after serving his sentence for inciting subversive acts. The latter two could be again sentenced for calling for a democratic China, yet continues to do so, while under surveillance. Such is their devotion to the cause.
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Can’t Sleep. June 3rd.. So this is how it feels to Live in a Totalitarian Regime huh?
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
sorry this comment is not related to the issue above but i just want to say: i love the teddy under the bear – heheh
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i mean tanker. oops =)
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I went there that night. It was very moving. I was also surprised at the number of young people. It had meaning for people at all levels of society it would seem.
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It was slightly weird that there was not even a mention of Tiananmen on any of the Chinese news stories that I watched, they didn’t even mention this protest, usually protests in Hong Kong get vilified a bit, but nothing, not a whisper about anything. Not even a Massacre, what Massacre?
The blogging community was more alive this week than I’ve ever known it to be, yet the Chinese press was silient.
I’d have expected a bland “blame the Japanse” or “it was a plot” but no. Not a single story.
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It was slightly weird that there was not even a mention of Tiananmen on any of the Chinese news stories that I watched, they didn’t even mention this protest, usually protests in Hong Kong get vilified a bit, but nothing, not a whisper about anything. Not even a Massacre, what Massacre?
The blogging community was more alive this week than I’ve ever known it to be, yet the Chinese press was silient.
I’d have expected a bland “blame the Japanse” or “it was a plot” but no. Not a single story.
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Angry Chinese Blogger,
They were quiet because they’re trying their best to pretend that this wasn’t anything at all: a project of collective amnesia. Our beloved friends in Zhongnanhai probably gave directives that this isn’t even supposed to be mentioned, as if by doing so they can erase the memory and ease their guilty consciences. (Hmmm. I may have to amend that. Do they have consciences?)
After all, from “Massacre” to “Event” to “Disturbance” to “Nothing” seems like a nice way to deal with the situation. If they just stick their heads further into the sand, say “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” maybe it’ll all go away.
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Have the government been ignoring this incident in other countries or have they issued diplomantic protests against America etc for propogating stories about Tiananmen this month.
I haven’t read anything about China attacking a documentary in Tainanmen or issuing an official complaint to anybody recently, does this mean that they are ignoring the issue in America and Europe rather than trying to convince people that their numbers are out.
I have read quite a bit recently saying that people have been writting articles that split ends over whether or not the people were killed inside the square or outside it, and some that make an issue about the media issuing large causlty figures and then lowering them quietly. But oddly most of these are not from Chinese interests.
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Asia by blog
By popular demand (precisely one person, but I’ll take) Asia by blog is back to give you a taste of what’s what in Asia recently. Firstly Hemlock finds himself waiting alone outside the HK General Post Office waiting to indulge his philately. Conrad qu…
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Asia by blog
By popular demand (precisely one person, but I’ll take) Asia by blog is back to give you a taste of what’s what in Asia recently. Firstly Hemlock finds himself waiting alone outside the HK General Post Office waiting to indulge his philately. Conrad qu…
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there is no comments or reports about this thing, why? i feel very hard to understand!
i mean in China. I am a student in Nan Jing ,Jiang Su provice.I want to know more about six-four accident! please give me Email!Thank you!
(laurence I have removed your original post to remove your email and ip address from this site. You have to understand that this place is monitored by Chinese government censors. You have to be careful.)
Yan
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I have sent your email. But you need to use proxies, hide your identity. Just a different email. Anything to make sure you cannot be tracked if we have this conversation. I want to take utmost precaution just in case.
The reason you don’t know about this is because this is a banned “conversation” and topic by the CCP. Okay?
yan
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