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In 1989, I was a graduate student at Peking University and experienced the entire movement from start to finish, observing it up close.
I had two best friends. One was a member of the Peking University football team. On the evening of June 3rd, at Muxidi, when the army opened fire, a person fell right beside him. He carried the person into a taxi. By the time they reached the hospital, the man had died in his arms, covering his white shirt entirely in blood...
I saw his blood-stained shirt and his bicycle, which had a bullet hole in the chain guard.
His girlfriend, who was also my good friend, was at Tiananmen Square that night. They only began retreating when the shooting started, running into the small alleys near Tiananmen. Whenever they heard gunshots, they would quickly squat down. After the gunfire stopped and they stood up, they would often find people who could no longer stand...
They fled like this for a long distance... I forgot how she eventually made it back to school.
On June 4th, I spent a long time together with the two of them. I don’t remember exactly when I heard that Peking University was about to be placed under military control and that students should find places to stay outside. So I slept on the desk in somebody's office.
Around June 12th, we took a train together and escaped Beijing amid the chaos (we had to ask someone to pull strings to get the tickets).
At that time, the air was still filled with the smoke from burning things...
36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre.
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. https://t.co/XXjnzsDnuq
Ahead of the 37th anniversary of the #TiananmenMassacre, #HongKongers in Taiwan held a protest calling for the release of Chow Hang-tung & Lee Cheuk-yan, both imprisoned since Sept 2021 for commemorating #June4 & now awaiting trial verdict.
#FreeChowHangTung#FreeLeeCheukYan
31 years ago today. China has deliberately tried to erase the #TiananmenMassacre from history in China and is now attempting the same in Hong Kong. But facts and history are stubborn things.
Police surrounded performance artist Sanmu Chan in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay today, ahead of global commemorations to mark the 1989 #TiananmenMassacre.
He was holding a piece of red string.
"Chan later told reporters at the scene that the red string was 6.4 metres long."
#June4 #HongKong
Never forget.
https://t.co/nec7QgdXJ2
Tomorrow will be 37 years since that day when nothing happened in #Tiananmen Square #June4
Beijing just shut the gates on Tiananmen Mothers, barring them from Wanan Cemetery & blocking their annual memorial for 1989 victims @Sohnie@BobFu4China@revolution528@BanGaoRen
🚨BREAKING: Families of victims of the 1989 #TiananmenMassacre have reportedly been banned from mourning their loved ones at Beijing's Wan'an Cemetery on #June4 — the first such restriction in over three decades.
The Tiananmen Mothers have condemned the move as a violation of basic human dignity and the right to remember the dead.
Source: @RFA_Chinese
Full: https://t.co/7wxSYsZ4Hp
On June 3rd, 1989, the #TiananmenMassacre began as Chinese soldiers attacked protestors in Tiananmen square. The attack lasted until the following day. Total deaths are difficult to know due to communist party suppression and censorship, but estimates range from 200 to 3,500.
The bravest people: the parents of Henry Nowak, Fin Sullivan @CJPSULLIVAN, & Lee Rigby.
On top of the agony of losing beloved sons in such brutal ways, they’ve had to deal with racists trying to exploit them.
And they’ve spoken out, honouring their boys’ beliefs.
Heroes.❤️
Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a WHITE Police Officer.
Nigel Farage called for calm.
But when he can use racism he calls for Cold, Hard, Rage.
When they finish pouring their anger on foreigners, the next in line are the tribes they don’t like, and they will still pretend to be clueless on how ridiculous this all is.
South African reggae icon and one of Africa’s greatest reggae artistes, Lucky Dube, was killed by fellow South Africans.
The convicted killers told the court they thought the reggae legend was a Nigerian national and only realized who he was after reading newspaper reports the next day.
A source close to the heart of Restore has been in touch to say Ben Habib will likely be offered a senior role within the party after he disbanded his own Advance Party.
They have said it presents an opportunity to solidify their support with Elon Musk and the wider zionist establishment.
They also said it presents an excellent opportunity to rid themselves of what the party describes as 'toxic elements' who have all threatened to leave if Habib takes up a position in the party.
How's your lawsuit against Ben Habib going? Ben called you out on the £5 million bribe you took from Christopher Harborne.
Harbone paid you to kill the Brexit Party and then paid you to return as an MP so that you can advocate lower taxes for his crypto business.
#FarageRiots
#PoliticsLive