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31 years ago in June, Chinese students began a public protest to get the Communist Chinese government to lighten up.\u00a0 Hua Guofeng had just died and was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping, but no loosening of party rulership was forthcoming. There had been protest prior to this in 1976, which were not publicly spoken about, but this episode of young people asking for some leniency was covered by ABC’s and BBC’s correspondents in Beijing.<\/p>\n
Most of these are brief videos. The ABC video with Sam Donaldson shows only the start of the nighttime massacre. The start of the broadcast from Tiananmen Square was daytime hours over there. Some students had made a mockup of the Statue of Liberty out of cardboard, and were carting that around, but I could not find a video of it. They had Xeroxes and cameras and were determined to get their message out.<\/p>\n
A sobering part of this is that the Communist Party decides what is and is not allowed to be real, and has demanded that companies like Microsoft block access by its inhabitants to images and videos of what happened back then.\u00a0 Fortunately, we in the Western world still have that and the younger crowd are shocked when they see it.\u00a0 Xi Jinping’s spoken philosophy for building “a new and prosperous China” is that you can choose politics, or you can choose money.<\/p>\n
What you watch is your choice. Some are short, some are about an hour long, but they all drive the same message home.\u00a0 If you were alive back then, you may remember some of the scenes shown on the videos.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2020\/06\/zoom-disabled-us-based-chinese-activists-account-over-chinas-anti-tiananmen-law\/<\/a><\/p>\n Tiananmen Square survivors\u2019 online conference blocked by Zoom.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wNEW1Uh0lz0<\/a><\/p>\n Daytime footage of mass protest in Tiananmen Square, w\/footage of man with shopping bags in front of a line of tanks. He was whisked away by other people and vanished from sight. While there has been great curiosity regarding who he was, his identity has never been revealed, for a good reason: he would have been publicly executed by Deng’s government for what he did.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/video\/june-1989-tiananmen-square-massacre-47773209<\/a><\/p>\n Sam Donaldson reports, with correspondent reporter, on Chinese Army\u2019s night-time massacre at Tiananmen Square<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2019\/05\/30\/video-canadian-journalist-shares-newly-restored-footage-tiananmen-massacre-horror\/<\/a><\/p>\n The real horror: the Red Chinese army firing on Chinese citizens at night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6mePptwTzn0&feature=emb_rel_pause<\/a><\/p>\n 46 minutes of the Tiananmen Square rebellion and subsequent massacre, with the man with shopping bags included, and interviews with survivors of the massacre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n