Hundreds gather to mark Tiananmen anniversary in Taiwan

[SouthBayDem]

Source: Reuters

TAIPEI/HONG KONG, June 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered in Taipei on Saturday to commemorate China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 33 years ago.

Chinese-run Hong Kong deployed heavy security to prevent any sign of protest there.

Saturday is the anniversary of Chinese troops opening fire to end the student-led unrest in and around the square in central Beijing. China has never provided a full death toll from the events of June 4, 1989, but rights groups and witnesses say the figure could run into the thousands.

China bans any public commemoration of the event on the mainland, and Hong Kong authorities have clamped down too, making democratic Taiwan the only part of the Chinese-speaking world where it can be remembered openly.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/chinas-tiananmen-victims-wont-be-forgotten-us-says-2022-06-04/

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[rsdsharp]

1. We were at Tiananmen two years later. We were at Victoria Park, too.

Somewhere we have a book about Tiananmen that we bought while in Beijing. It was published by the government, and painted the students as violent aggressors. Obvious bullshit, but it was full of graphic pictures of the aftermath.

[Martin68]

2. It makes complete sense that Taiwan would celebrate Tiananmen Square.

It was proof that the DRC's Communist Party leadership would never let a country under China's control seek democracy. That's why Taiwan veered from pro-China to "OK we'll do business with them, but they can stay out of our politics."