China: the wounds of Tiananmen

martes, 19 de mayo de 2009

Two decades later continues to censorship and persecution of the survivors and the critical.
Twenty years after the Chinese army to assassinate an unreported number of unarmed civilians in Beijing and other cities throughout the country between 3 and 4 June 1989, the Chinese government continues to persecute the survivors, relatives of victims and those who question the official version of events, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch has released today “The Tiananmen Legacy” (The Legacy of Tiananmen Square), a study of the prolonged impact of Tiananmen and a multimedia presentation on the twentieth anniversary of the repression.
The Chinese Communist Party initially justified their actions during the bloody repression as a necessary response to a "counterrevolutionary incident", and then revise its definition of events as "political."

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