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...years ago, Li Lu was a student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests. Now a hedge-fund manager, he is in line to become a successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Dennis Berman tells the story about one of the leaders at Tiananmen Square who...
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China Digital Times
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2010/07/from-tiananmen-square-to-possible-buffett-successor/
JUNE 5, 1989 : Following weeks of huge protests in Beijing and the bloody crackdown from June 1 till the morning of the 5th (resulting in the deaths of many hundreds maybe thousands), ONE LONE MAN stepped in front of a column of tanks that just left Tiananmen Square, rumbling over E. Chang'an Avenue. This moment instantly became a SYMBOL of the Chinese protests and its unique film footage (along with several photographs) became one of the most famous images of the 20th century, as well as one of the strongest international symbols AGAINST OPPRESSION worldwide : The unknown rebel, aka 'TANK MAN', has unblocked a true way to mankind's collective consciousness with his anonymous and heroic, -nonviolent- act of eternal defiance. ----------------------- UNFORTUNATELY, the Chinese (and many other countries) government's CENSORSHIP is STILL a FACT concerning the TRUTH in history, the press and even on the entire INTERNET : many people in (former) dictatorship's countries across the world have actually never seen these images, nor have they ever heard of, or read about the MASSACRE and countless other historical taboos, so PLEASE, do FORWARD, EMBED and SPREAD THIS VIDEO !!! Also check the links below, read and spread the WISDOM of the late HOWARD ZINN (1922-2010) and you can also find and watch the 'PBS Frontline' documentary 'The Tank Man' (2006) in 8 parts here on youtube... ----------------------- Additional background information (source) from, wiki : The Tiananmen Square ...
on his radio show yesterday Galloway has once again defended the Chinese Government by denying the atrocities it commited against its own people. thousands were killed and injured when the Communist Regime sent its armed forces to silence the anti-government protests in the Tiananmen square where millions of demonstrators gathered
A informational video about the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in June 1989. Remember and honor those who tried to peacefully bring freedom to China but were answered with gunfire or were ran down by tanks. Forward this to anyone you may know as this is a incident that ranks amongst some of the worst crimes against humanity while also showing the cowardice of a corrupt government!
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The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre (referred to in Chinese as the June 4 Incident, to avoid confusion with two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen
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Rantburg
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2009-06-04&ID=271207
If you think about what was happening in the socialist world at that time, there were a lot of changes, and the Chinese wanted to participate, said Austin Jersild, Associate Professor of history.
Sometimes the simple mistakes are more interesting than the pre-planned spin on Fox News as it was today when I noticed a mistake Fox News anchor Jane Skinner made, presumably misreading the teleprompter, when she reported the story on the crackdowns in China leading up to the 20th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square that I show in this video. The short clip of Fox News I use in my video comes from the broadcast of the program "Happening Now" shown on June 3, 2009. You can read Sigmund Freud's book "Psychopathology of Everday Life" that I mention in this video in full online at psychclassics.yorku.ca My previous video titled "Obama Teleprompter Obsession" to which I refer in this video is available on YouTube at www.youtube.com The dozens and dozens of videos documenting ideological bias on Fox News to which I refer in this video are available on my Fox News Bias playlist on YouTube at www.youtube.com And, finally, you can find a lot more in depth information from the New York Times about the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests in China at www.nytimes.com
Twenty years have passed since hundreds of thousands of people flooded onto the streets of Beijing and into Tiananmen Square demanding democracy, freedom of speech and an end to corruption. After a seven week standoff, the Communist government called in the troops and a bloody battle pursued. Twenty years on, Al Jazeera speaks to some of those who took part in the world's largest and most influential pro-democracy movement.
Ten years after the Tiananmen Square massacre,10000 Falun gong practitioners gathered outside China's central leadership compound in Beijing. They had come to appeal at China's central appeals office -- to appeal for practitioners who had been abused in the city of Tianjin, for thei books, which ahd been banned, and for practitioners all over the country who were being harassed and investigated by the police. They were met by the Chinese premier, and the arrested practitioners were released. It seemed like the appeal had been successful. But in reality, time was running out, and the brutal crackdown was getting closer and closer.
clip from PBS "The Tank Man". Rewriting history. Note that this (american) PBS documentary is omits the powerfull images/video of students erecting a large "Statue of Liberty" replica as an outcry for help to America and other "free" nations. Of course the Reagan/Bush admin. was not going to help because they politically, economically and socially(cfr. one-child policy & Bush sr.) supported the communist regime in China. (more: check CBC archives footage on china 1989)
Tiananmen Square is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen (literally, Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. It has great cultural significance as a symbol because it was the site of several key events in Chinese history Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. One of the most widely reproduced versions of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile (800 meters) away from the scene, through a 400-millimeter lens. Little is publicly known of the man's identity or that of the commander of the lead tank. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named the man as Wang Weilin , a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious. Numerous rumors have sprung up as to the man's identity and current whereabouts, but none are backed by hard evidence. There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President's Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn—former deputy special assistant to President of the United States Richard Nixon ...
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Unlike the scene in 1989 when a lone protester faced down a tank during protests, historic Tiananmen Square is now the sight of picture-taking tourists and topiary gardens. BEIJING Decked out in a tight, white Gucci shirt, wide-frame shades and
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USA Today
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...e-mails from CBCNews.ca requesting comment. It's believed the Chinese originally did not want live shots from Tiananmen Square, fearing the world might tune in and see protests being broadcast live during China's coming big celebration. Tiananmen Square is...
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CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2008/06/19/olympic-broadcasters.html?ref=rss
ANCHOR: June 4 marks the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China. The international outcry over the massacre of students in Tiananmen forced the Chinese Communist Party to recognize that the way it treated its own people could have a negative effect on its international relations. Supporters of the CCP say the human rights situation has improved since then, but others point to the on-going persecution of Tibetans, Falun Gong, lawyers, and journalists—and say that the situation has not improved, and that the CCP has just become better at hiding and making excuses for its crimes. In the lead-up to the Olympics, people are urging the CCP to finally make the events of what happened on June 4 public to the Chinese people. But the CCP will not publicly acknowledge its massacre. Bao Tang, arrested for supporting the demonstrators, spoke out about Tiananmen. Here's more. STORY: The most senior Chinese official jailed for sympathising with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has urged the leadership to make public the events that led to the government's decision to crush the pro-democracy movement. Student demonstrations encouraged more than a million people to Beijing's streets in 1989, a protest that ended in a military crackdown on June 4. Now a fading memory, taking about the massacre is still taboo in the Chinese media. Bao Tong, once the top aide to the party chief Zhao Ziyang, said that the CCP should live up to the transparency it has shown during the ...
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...— Security forces kept a close watch on Beijing's Tiananmen Square during Wednesday's anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, amid renewed calls for the release of political prisoners ahead of this year's Beijing Summer Olympics. No public...
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/636028.html
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...ALL the taboos in modern China, the violent quelling of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests on June 4, 1989, remains the most sensitive. Nineteen years later, China is now the world's fourth-largest economy, and proud host of this year's Olympic Games....
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Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/tiananmen-square-still-an-almost-taboo-topic/2008/06/03/1212258825697.html?s_cid=rss_world
My AP Human Geography video, showing the human rights violations by the Communist Party of China in the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in China referred to as the June Fourth Incident to avoid confusion with the two other Tiananmen Square protests, were a series of demonstrations led by labor activists, students, and intellectuals in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between April 15 and June 4, 1989. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership, participants were generally against the authoritarianism and economic policies of the ruling Chinese Communist Party and voiced calls for democratic reform within the structure of the government. The demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which stayed peaceful throughout the protests. In Beijing, the resulting military crackdown on the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The reported tolls ranged from 200--300 (PRC government figures), to 300--800 (The New York Times), and to 2000--3000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross). Following the violence, the government conducted widespread arrests to suppress protesters and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, banned the foreign press from the country and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the PRC press. Members of the Party who had publicly sympathized with the protesters were purged, with several high-ranking members placed under ...
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in China referred to as the June Fourth Incident to avoid confusion with the two other Tiananmen Square protests and as an act of official censorship, were a series of demonstrations led by labor activists, students, and intellectuals in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between April 15 and June 4, 1989. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership, participants were generally against the authoritarianism and economic policies of the ruling Chinese Communist Party and voiced calls for democratic reform within the structure of the government. The demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which stayed peaceful throughout the protests. In Beijing, the resulting military crackdown on the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The reported tolls ranged from 200--300 (PRC government figures), to 400--800 (The New York Times), and to 2000--3000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross).
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For higher resolution watch www.ntdtv.com to watch more on youtube : youtube.com choose playlist and then "Zooming in" WONG: 18 years ago on June 3rd 1989, the Chinese communist regime dispatched several hundred thousand troops to Beijing, to suppress students and other protesters who were peacefully calling for democracy. In the early morning hours of June 4th, the soldiers opened fire on protesters in, and around, Tiananmen Square, chasing people with tanks and mowing them down with machine guns; bringing a violent and bloody end to the nearly two month long grassroots democratic movement. This event is etched in the minds of millions of people around the world as the June 4th, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre. During these two months there were so many key defining moments that led up to that fateful day. And today we recount the particularly inspiring episode that took place on the afternoon of May 23rd. The incident may have seemed insignificant at the time. But it completely changed the lives of three courageous young men from Hunan Province. Here's their story.
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Video composed for a class project. I tried to preserve as much of the video of Tank Man uncut as I could.
According to wiki, a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists in Communist China between April 15, 1989 and June 4, 1989. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership, participants were generally critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party and voiced complaints ranging from minor criticisms to calls for full-fledged democracy and the establishment of broader freedoms. The demonstrations centred on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which stayed peaceful throughout the protests. In Beijing, the resulting military crackdown on the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The toll ranges from 200--300 (PRC government figures), to 400--800 by the New York Times, and to 2000--3000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross), although the PRC government asserts and most independent observers agree that the majority of these deaths were not in the square itself but rather in the streets leading to the square.[1] Following the violence, the regime conducted widespread arrests to suppress protestors and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, banned the foreign press from the country and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the Chinese state-run press. Members of the Party who had publicly sympathized with the protesters were purged, with several high-ranking members placed under ...
Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. The most widely reproduced version of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener (Associated Press), from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile (800 m) away, through a 400 mm lens. Another version was taken by photographer Stuart Franklin of Magnum Photos. His photograph has a wider field of view than Widener's picture, showing more tanks in front of the man. Franklin subsequently won a World Press Award for the photograph. It was featured in LIFE magazine's "100 Photos that Changed the World" in 2003. Variations of the image were also recorded by CNN and BBC film crews, on videotape, and were transmitted across the world. The still and motion photography of the man standing alone before a line of tanks reached international audiences practically overnight. It headlined hundreds of major newspapers and news magazines and was the lead story on countless news broadcasts around the world. In April 1998, the United States magazine TIME included the "Unknown Rebel" in its 100 most influential people of the 20th century. The incident took place just a minute away from Tiananmen on Chang'an Avenue, which leads into the Forbidden City, Beijing, on ...
Pictorial slide show showing the events up to and of June 4th 1989, set to "Hymn To The Fallen" by John Williams. Dead and injured: Chinese Red Cross initially reported 2600 as dead, then retracted it. Chinese government official figure is 241 dead, 7000 wounded. Tiananmen Mothers have confirmed 182 dead, with name, age, location and cause of death. 死去和负伤的人： 朱红色的十字架最初报告了2600如死，然后缩回了它。 是241死， 7000受伤的中国政府官员形象。 天安门母亲证实了182死，与名字、年龄、地点和死因***Comments that make no reference to the massacre are being removed. There are many forums to debate about the Chinese government in general. And please, if you wish to discuss June 4th 1989, causes and effects, don't abuse other users.Thank you.***
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...Park Monday, June 4, 2007. Hong Kongers planned to remember the anniversary Monday of the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing 18 years ago at a candlelight vigil at the Victoria park in the former British colony the only place in China...
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060400343.html?nav=rss_email/components
Available for iPod! see below An indelible image of courage, one lone protester facing down a tank in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, June 1989. He would become known simply as 'Tank Man' or 'The Unknown Rebel'. The massive student protests were brutally put down on June 4th when the Chinese army attacked with tanks and trucks, firing indescriminately at the unarmed protesters, killing and injuring thousands. The Unknown Rebel confronted the tank column next day as the army withdrew. Neither his identity nor his fate have ever been established, reported by some to have been executed, and by others to be still alive. This music comes from the CD 'Image Conscious', music loosely hung on enduring news images. Music and video by Plug. Due to numerous requests this video and the music track (with high quality stereo sound) is available in iPod format FREE! at: www.dickiethomas.co.uk
Tiananmen Square Massacre
June 4th, the deadly day of China's Tiananmen Square Massacre. The dead college students, the merciless soldiers, the "Tank Man" who to this day remains unknown. Song: Requiem for a Dream I'd like to give credit to Google Videos. However, I think more people will see it if it is on Youtube.
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