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Some former soldiers and officials who agreed to talk about their roles in the crisis said they were alarmed by the state-enforced censorship and silencing of witnesses that have left a younger generation largely ignorant about one of the most devastating episodes in modern Chinese history. “It was hard to distinguish foes from friends, and the target to be attacked was unclear.” Yang De’an, an officer with the People’s Armed Police, a paramilitary force, wrote in one assessment found among military documents acquired by the Princeton University Library. “Tiananmen Square Document 35: U.S.“The situation was fluid and confusing, and we underestimated the brutality of the struggle,” Capt.“Tiananmen Square 25 Years On: 'Every Person in the Crowd Was a Victim of the Massacre',” by Ma Jian, The Guardian, June 1, 2014.“Tiananmen Square Document 30: Cable, Eyewitness Account of June 4 PLA Tank Crushing 11 Students and Related Early Morning Events in Tiananmen Square, 1989,” June 22, 1989.“Tiananmen at 25: Enduring Influence on U.S.-China Relations and China’s Political Development,” Congressional-Executive Commission on China, May 20, 2014.Nathan, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2001 “Restrictions, Detentions, and Disappearances before June 4, 2014,” Human Rights in China.

“Photos: May-June, 1989,” Human Rights in China.“Hope Fades as Despair Draws Near: Essay by the Tiananmen Mothers on the 24th Anniversary of the June Fourth Tragedy,” Human Rights in China, May 31, 2013.“Excerpts From Zhao Ziyang’s ‘Prisoner of the State,’” by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius, The New York Times, May 13, 2009.Documentary: “Portraits of Loss and the Quest for Justice,” Human Rights in China.“Assignment: China-Tiananmen Square,” USC U.S.-China Institute, May 31, 2014.“China: Detained to Death,” by Renee Xia and Perry Link - To anyone who thinks concerns about the medications of detained activists might be excessive, it is crucial to understand what happened to Cao Shunli, a legal rights activist who had a chronic medical condition and died as a result of medical complications that became life-threatening during five months of criminal detention.

#TIANANMEN SQUARE AFTERMATH PROFESSIONAL#

“‘Staying’-An Excerpt from ‘People’s Republic of Amnesia’,” by Louisa Lim - Zhang Ming’s involvement in the 1989 student protests in Beijing has haunted him for the past 25 years, resulting in two imprisonments, torture at the hands of the prison system, and repeated professional setbacks.

They were an important turning point for a society of more than a billion people. “The Specter of June Fourth,” by Perry Link - These particular killings had to do with the fate of a nation. “25 Years On, Can China Move Past Tiananmen?” a ChinaFile Conversation - Xu Zhiyuan: Whenever the massacre at Tiananmen Square 25 years ago comes up in conversation, I think of Faulkner’s famous line: “The past is never dead. “Cairo in Chinese” - In this short video, two friends (one Chinese, one Egyptian) draw parallels between the Rabaa Square massacre and the Tiananmen Square massacre. “Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were,” by Jonathan Mirsky- During a television interview in the square I said that, while I couldn’t predict, I was confident “China would never be the same again.” But memory persists this report reconstructs the spring of 1989 and its aftermath in text, photographs, video, graphics, and most strikingly, new video interviews with key figures filmed in mainland China. “Voices from Tiananmen: A Special Multimedia Report”- This year, the annual rituals of erasure have taken on the peculiarly zealous quality of an obsessive compulsive’s locking and relocking of the same door. “A Day to Remember/A Day Forgotten”- Filmmaker Liu Wei spends the day of Jsimply asking passersby, “Do you know what day it is today?” What results are conversations not easily forgotten. “The Tanks and the People,” by Liao Yiwu- Twenty-five years ago, before the Tiananmen massacre, my father told me: “Son, be good and stay at home, never provoke the Communist Party.”

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