China’s top English-language government propaganda outlets completely ignored the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this weekend, a return to a standard Beijing …
China’s top English-language government propaganda outlets completely ignored the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this weekend, a return to a standard Beijing disposed of in 2019 when it began celebrating the mass murder following the rise of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement. The 2019 protests against communism attracting millions of people in Hong Kong subsided after two years of violent crackdowns and the implementation of an illegal “national security” law that requires sentences of at least ten years in prison for those found guilty of “calls to foreign interference,” “incitement to secession,” “subversion of state power,” or “terrorism.”
Under the “One Country, Two Systems” policy nominally in place, laws like the “national security” regulation passed through Beijing’s National People’s Congress (NPC) should not apply in Hong Kong, but the city’s police have enforced it, anyway, prompting a mass exodus of pro-democracy activists. Hong Kong police banned a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre again this week, the third time since claiming to shut it down to prevent coronavirus infections in 2020. Prior to 2020, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park was home to the largest memorial event for the Tiananmen victims in the world, held continuously since 1990. The Tiananmen Square massare of June 4, 1989, was a violent Communist Party crackdown against peaceful, mostly student protesters in Beijing’s eponymous plaza. The protesters, inspired by the slow fall of the Soviet Union and protests across the east side of the Iron Curtain, took the streets demanding democratic reforms in China. The protests largely consisted of marching and holding up symbols like the “Goddess of Democracy” statue, which Chinese police destroyed. A Hong Kong pro-democracy group known for organizing the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil disbanded on Saturday, citing political pressure from pro-China forces in Hong Kong’s government, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Monday. https://t.co/Uef9mzNxJL
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No final death toll exists for the Tiananmen Square massacre but experts believe thousands were killed, both in the streets – images success the military rolled over protesters with tanks – and in the hospitals after police initially attacked. The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, did not mark the June 4 date this year by acknowledging the occasion on its English-language website.
