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World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

They weren't "fellow civillians".

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

https://x.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Those "fellow civillians" weren't civilians, they were secret police. So I don't know what good does the video do.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Have you tried actually confirming that?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Have you tried not being a tankie and thinking for a second, or actually doing your own research?

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