On June 3 and 4th 1989, the Tiananmen student-led pro-democracy demostrations ended in the deaths of an estimated 23 to 7000 (!) Chinese protesters.
16 years later, injustice still surrounds this issue, including the recent 10 year jail sentence of Shi Tao for "leaking state secrets".
(Isn't that what journalists are supposed to do?)
If you want to know more
http://www.amnesty.ca/english/main_article_home/Tiananmen_backgrounder_2005.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
3 comments:
are you trying to distract us from your stupidity? Lets get back to lindsay and her bruises... :)
i agree
dammit people...must we linger? it was 7 blocks away!
- I fear this to be yet another "milky girl" moment/mistake...damn jess and mel and their memories ;)
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