Remembering Tiananmen Square (because they want us to forget it)

[2wheels]

4th of June marks the 25th anniversary of the massacre.
I've had conflicting thoughts about putting this sort of stuff on a bike site but some of us do go there and some of us live there
and it's just too big an event to allow it to, as the Chinese authorities would prefer we do, fade away into oblivion.

So ….






http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/tiananmen-square-25-years-every-person-victim-massacre

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/remembering-tiananmen/story-e6frg6n6-1225712617852


"Tanks ran backwards and forwards over the bodies of the slain until they were reduced to pulp, after which bulldozers moved in to push the remains into piles, which were incinerated with flamethrowers."

(Bob Hawke was the then Prime Minister of Australia.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgcxd9wtXUE&feature=kp

Just a personal and humble but sincere remembrance of the innocent children of the revolution.

 

[The Bigfella]

Thanks Ron.

 

[TB-Racing]

Well ~ first week of June, time of the year again... over here in the motherland the internet gets very slow and spotty and BBC / CNN television broadcasts stop for minutes ~ hours ~ days...

side-note: was able to access the RideAsia forum easily all the time but as of this evening need a VPN to load any RA webpages, the Great Firewall of China (internet) at work at its best after this thread was started.

 

[2wheels]

Wow!
So there go my Visa chances! :RE

 

[Just Bob]

Mao's tormented and violent legacy still resonates in Chinese politics and society.