Thousands Protest Tiananmen Square Massacre

Thousands of people marched in Hong Kong on Sunday demanding the Chinese regime to readdress the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. It comes just days before the 20th anniversary of the crackdown.
Five thousand Hong Kong demonstrators are asking the Chinese Communist Party to readdress the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Twenty years ago, on June the 4th, the Chinese regime's army marched through the square. Although it has never been officially confirmed, it is believed that thousands of demonstrators were killed. The protestors were demanding democratic reform and an end to official corruption.

Former student leader Xiong Yan was on Beijings "most-wanted list after the bloody crackdown.

But today, Xiong is demonstrating peacefully in Hong Kong, after living seventeen years in exile in the United States.

[Xiong Yan, Former Student Leader]:
"I think because there is a dictatorial system in China and the regime is very corrupt, they (the Communist regime) are not brave enough to face the truth."

Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-Yan says people have not forgotten the massacre and are still pushing for democracy.

[Lee Cheuk-Yan, Pro-Democracy Activist]:
Without vindication of June 4th, it shows that the Chinese regime do not have any sincerity in pushing forward political reform and promoting respect for human rights and democracy. So we hope that by marching we can give a very clear message to the Chinese regime that we want change, we want democracy."




A student demonstrating today thinks the Tiananmen Square students were doing the right thing.

[Mak Ka-Yan, Student Demonstrator]:
"We think the students at that time were pursuing democracy and addressing what they saw as problems with the regime and corruption in society. They just wanted to express their opinions and that was a patriotic action. We think we should recognise them and stress that the student movement was correct."

On Friday the memoirs of Zhao Ziyang were released in Hong Kong. Zhao Ziyang was a former General Secretary of the Communist Party. He had pushed for a dialogue with the Tiananmen students. But after the Chinese regimes crackdown, Zhao Ziyang was placed under house arrest until his death four years ago.

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[ayanuhito]

and.. not salaries but "incomes" excuse me, again.

[ayanuhito]

i mean occupation not occupancies, excuse me.

[ayanuhito]

it's interesting stories. by the way, how much salaries do they take in hk and in uk? politicians have been one of the best occupancies in salaries here. and that is why the japanese civils can't trust them, at all. because the most politicians seem to know their own classes only. even a politician from the lower class often become the same. civils are more and more subdivided into small circles, while politicians are living in their own closed societies. what is the government..??

[historyboy12]

Well, in Japan it's more to do with the government failing to address the nation's economic stagnation since 1990. The problem is that politicains are unable to enact policies which would erode their political control. Immigration for example being a key issue for the economy and demography.

So it's the electorate's expectations that's the problem as well. Same here in the UK.

[ayanuhito]

Great!! so.. what about the case when people abandon the government, and totally lost interests in politics?! i mean it's my country. japan is the special one for that in asia. more than half the citizens even abandon the rights to vote. for about 15yrs so far. elections seem totally nonsense here.

[Chikusoo]

when the people fears the government, it's tyranny. When the government fears the people, it's liberty.

[ayanuhito]

oh.. she's so beautiful, by the way.

HonkgKongese are interesting civils.

they seem to protest anything. they love

saying "NO!" to anything surrounding them.

they're Asians but the very special ones.