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June 15, 2006
Communism & China
China Hopes We Forget Tiananmen Square Massacre
By Jens Galschiot, AIDOH.dk
In 1989 the Chinese students were massacred on the Square of the Heavenly
Peace. The students had been occupying the square for months in an attempt
to press the Chinese government to take steps towards democracy and to fight
against corruption. But on 4th June 1989 the regime threw in the army against
the students. The story is banned in China, but all the students’ newspaper
articles, fliers etc. have been collected by the democracy movement in Hong
Kong. These collections of documents have now been scanned and put on the
Internet from where they can be downloaded for free, see http://www.aidoh.dk/4june89
Many of the young dissidents imprisoned in the wake of the crackdown are
still in jail and no longer young. Nevertheless the world’s leaders are doing
"business as usual" with the totalitarian regime in Beijing. They are considering
canceling the weapon’s embargo and other sanctions implemented as a protest
against the massacre. Thousands of Chinese students are studying at
universities and other institutions of education in the West. Most of them
do not know their own history. Therefore, we invite all pro-democracy institutions
and scholars to download and print out this documentation, place it on the
shelves of their libraries and hand it out as a gift to their Chinese students
on 4th June, the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. In this way we can
make a contribution to preserve the memory of the victims and maybe inspire
a new generation of Chinese to democracy as a possibility also for China.
The upcoming
2008 Olympics will undoubtedly be exploited to boost the Chinese government´s
international reputation. Simultaneously a series of Human Rights NGOs are
striving to wake the world´s conscience, see below a collection of links.
About Human Rights in China
We call on
everybody to support this initiative and to mail this appeal to other institutions
of education where there are Chinese students or others who might be interested
in preserving and distributing the knowledge about the Tiananmen massacre.
The initiative of this appeal and informative campaign is a co-operation
between the democracy movement in Hong Kong and Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot
who has put up an 8 metre high Pillar of Shame in Hong Kong to commemorate
the Tiananmen massacre.
See also about the democracy movement in Hong Kong:
HK Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
Inquiry phone number: 852-2782-6111, Fax number: 852-2770-6083
E-mail address: contact@alliance.org.hk
Website: http://www.alliance.org.hk
About human Rights in China:
http://www.aidoh.dk/China
Contact Jens Galschiot
E-mail: aidoh@aidoh.dk,
http://www.aidoh.dk,
tel. +45 6618 4058
Banevaenget 22, DK-5270 Odense N, Denmark
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