http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tiananmensquare/ en-us Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:29:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043171/posts Olympic Games: China curbs Tiananmen Square live broadcasts Broadcasts from Tiananmen Square have been banned Ashling O'Connor Olympics Correspondent The Chinese authorities have banned round-the-clock broadcasts from Tiananmen Square during the Olympics. Beijing Games organisers yesterday cited fears of overcrowding as they told international broadcasters that they could set up live positions only between 6am and 10am and 9pm and 11pm local time because of competing demands for the world's largest urban square from tourists, heads of state and other VIPs. The restrictions mean that the BBC's stock-in-trade live interview with its correspondent will be missing from primetime news programmes.... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043171/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026040/posts The bodies of dead civilians lie among mangled bicycles near Beijing's Tiananmen Square early June 4, 1989. Tanks and soldiers stormed the area overnight, bringing a violent end to student demonstrations for democratic reform in China. (AP Photo) Eyeballing Tiananmen Square Massacre http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026040/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:00:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993445/posts With the Olympic torch relay in China heralding the beginning of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese government faces daunting challenges in the wake of recent events, including ethnic minority independence protests, terrorism, and the international community?s threat to boycott the opening ceremony. With its official slogan for the Olympic Games, “One World, One Dream,” the Chinese government has aimed at emerging as a global powerhouse through the games. But ominous clouds have begun to gather over the Chinese government’s ambitions. Tight Security in Tiananmen Square The Chinese government has increased security in Tiananmen Square where the Olympic flame... The Dong-A Ilbo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993445/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:37:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845859/posts A young clerk with no knowledge of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown allowed a tribute to victims slip into the classified ads page of a newspaper in southwest China, a Hong Kong daily reported on Wednesday. The tiny ad in the lower right corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News on Monday night, read: "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims". An investigation was launched by Chinese authorities to find out how the advertisement slipped its way past censors. Public discussion of the massacre is still taboo in Beijing and the government has rejected calls... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845859/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:24:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845547/posts One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845547/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:40:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833076/posts BEIJING - A man threw a burning object at a portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs over Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, slightly damaging it and prompting police to close the nearby imperial palace, a news report said Sunday. The man, identified as Gu Hai'ou, from the northwestern city of Urumqi, tried to burn the portrait of communist China's first leader on Saturday afternoon, the Xinhua News Agency said. Early Sunday, authorities replaced the portrait, which had a small scorch mark in the lower left corner. "Armed police are guarding the area and visitors are forbidden to enter the Forbidden... Associated Press via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833076/posts#comment Mon, 14 May 2007 02:59:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787579/posts Minghui.net reports that on February 9, 2007, tourists witnessed a group of policemen suddenly attack a person sitting on the grass by Tiananmen Square. The attack lasted only a few minutes time. When it was over there was a large pool of blood left on the ground where the beating took place. The tourist who reported the attack arrived in Tiananmen Square at around noon with two of his friends. On the other side of the square was a man sitting on the grass. He was sitting motionless. Suddenly, several policemen ran up to him and surrounded him. The police... The Epoch Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787579/posts#comment Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:07:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643374/posts THE US today urged China to account for thousands killed, arrested and missing in the Tiananmen Square crackdown on democratic protesters 17 years ago, saying a reevaluation is "long overdue". "Seventeen years ago, beginning on the night of June 3 and continuing June 4, 1989, the Chinese government brutally suppressed peaceful demonstrations by its own citizens who were supporting political reform and democracy," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement. "The US urges China to provide a full accounting of the thousands who were killed, detained, or went missing and of the government's role in the massacre." Mr... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643374/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jun 2006 23:43:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643355/posts The United States marked the 17th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Tiananmen Square on Sunday by urging Beijing to re-evaluate its actions. China's government has stood by the suppression of what it has called "counterrevolutionary" riots, saying it preserved social stability and paved the way for economic growth. "The U.S. urges China to provide a full accounting of the thousands who were killed, detained or went missing and of the government's role in the massacre," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement. "We also urge China to address the ongoing violations of the rights... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643355/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jun 2006 23:00:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512354/posts Now that Cindy Sheehan turns out to be a disaster for the antiwar movement -- most Americans are not about to follow a left-wing radical who insists that we are in Iraq for reasons of theft, oppression and empire -- a new spokesman is needed. If I were in the opposition camp, I would want a deeply patriotic, highly intelligent, distinguished establishment figure. I would want Brent Scowcroft. Scowcroft has been obliging. In the Oct. 31 New Yorker he came out strongly against the war and the neocon sorcerers who magically foisted it upon what must have been a hypnotized... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512354/posts#comment Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:44:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624449/posts In the first known case of its kind, the Chinese authorities have paid compensation to the mother of a teenager who was killed in the crackdown following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tang Deying, a resident of the south-western city of Chengdu, has received $11,500 for the loss of her son Zhou Guocong. Fifteen-year-old Zhou was brought in by Chengdu police, two days after the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement started, and apparently died after severe beatings. Although he was cremated by the authorities, photos of his body later emerged and have been shown on the Internet. Australian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624449/posts#comment Mon, 1 May 2006 05:31:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616281/posts After all others had been silenced, his lonely act of defiance against the Chinese regime catalyzed the world. What became of him? And 17 years later, has China succeeded in erasing this event from its history? On June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured on film and video by Western journalists, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the struggle for freedom around the world. Seventeen years later,... PBS Frontline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616281/posts#comment Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:43:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605087/posts French protests 'Tiananmen' Washington - United States television networks on Tuesday carried widespread coverage of demonstrations in France against a controversial new youth labour law, with CNN comparing the unrest to the Tiananmen Square uprising. Several news networks, including CNN and Fox News, cut away from a live broadcast of a news conference with US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld to show images of French riot police using water cannons to disperse demonstrators in Paris. CNN anchor Kyra Phillips said that images of protesters defiantly standing in front of the water cannons brought back memories of pro-democracy activists who... Agence France-Presse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605087/posts#comment Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:38:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544565/posts China CrackingBy Frederick W. Stakelbeck Jr.FrontPageMagazine.com | December 21, 2005 In what is believed to be the deadliest confrontation since the murderous Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, police opened fire last week on a group of protesters in the coastal village of Dongzhou in the southern province of Guangdong, killing three people and wounding 10 others. Some local residents claim that dozens of protestors were killed and scores more wounded. Chinese riot police now patrol the village reinforced by police units from the nearby city of Shanwei. After a series of initial denials and an unexplained delay of four days,... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544565/posts#comment Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:08:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539558/posts The forced appropriation of farmers' land by the municipal authorities of Shanwei City, Guangdong Province has incited a mass protest by the residents. The land appropriation was conducted in order to build a power plant. The local authorities suppressed the protest using thousands of armed police who reportedly shot the protesters using submachine guns and tanks. Dozens are believed to have died. This latest attack on its own people by the Chinese government reminds the West of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and has drawn serious attention globally. On December 10, the official state media finally broke the silence... The Epoch Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539558/posts#comment Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:18:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484290/posts IMAGINE WHAT would have happened if during the 1980s an American communications company had provided information that allowed the South African government to track down and imprison an anti-apartheid activist. That is pretty much the moral equivalent of what Yahoo has just done in China in the case of journalist Shi Tao. And the California-based Web giant deserves the same kind of public opprobrium that would have fallen on any Western firm that dared to publicly cooperate with the enforcers of apartheid. Shi, the victim of Yahoo's shameful behavior, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for "illegally sending state... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484290/posts#comment Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:06:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416486/posts HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents were set to hold a candlelight vigil Saturday to mark the 16th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations. In Beijing, security was tight and there were no signs of public commemorations on the giant square, where 1989 student-led protests that ended when soldiers and tanks attacked, killing hundreds of people. China's Communist Party has eased many of the social controls that spurred the student-led Tiananmen protests, but still crushes protests against the event -- or any activity that it worries might threaten its monopoly on power.... The Star (Malaysia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416486/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:48:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416599/posts Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Hong Kong to remember those killed in Beijing 16 years ago by Chinese troops as they crushed the Tiananmen Square uprising. A crowd that organisers estimated at 45,000 chanted "Vindicate the 1989 democracy movement", "Release all political dissidents" and "End one party rule," at the annual rally in in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Lee Cheuk-yan, a pro-democracy politician and key organiser of the rally, said the event was a success, despite the estimated attendance figures being 50 per cent down on last year. He said:... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416599/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jun 2005 22:16:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416558/posts BEIJING - China tightened security around Tiananmen Square on Saturday to prevent memorials on the anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. But in Hong Kong, tens of thousands of protesters staged a candlelight rally. In Sydney, Australia, a Chinese diplomat who is seeking asylum emerged from hiding to address a memorial rally. Tiananmen Square, the symbolic political heart of China, was open to the public. But extra carloads of police watched tourists on the vast plaza, where weeks of student-led demonstrations that drew tens of thousands ended in a military attack 16 years ago Saturday. Troops killed... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416558/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416472/posts Amid all the admiration and fear of China's emergence as a modern industrial power, it is easy to forget how old fashioned are the country's politics. China may have embraced capitalism, globalisation and free trade, but its 1.3bn inhabitants are still ruled by a secretive Communist dictatorship. There are two related reasons for remembering this today. First, June 4 is the anniversary of the day in 1989 when party leaders launched a violent assault on the pro-democracy movement centred on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds of young protesters. Second, the party has recently begun a new campaign against freedom of... Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416472/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:18:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415627/posts June 3, 2005 is the sixteenth anniversary of the brutal 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre of peaceful pro-democracy protestors by the communist Chinese Government. Many Americans remember the infamous photo of the unarmed Chinese student standing in front of a column of armored tanks, blocking their path. What most Americans did not see were the color photos of smashed and bloody bodies of protestors all over the ground, making the ground look somewhat like the top of a giant pizza. The following are links to the encyclopedia entry for "Tiananmen Square", which is also provided below: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/t/tiananme.asp http://www.encyclopedia.com/printable.asp?url=/ssi/t/tiananme.html The following... FraudFactor.com, Encyclopedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415627/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:29:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413401/posts A JOURNALIST considered to be the doyen of China correspondents has been detained in Beijing and could be charged with stealing state secrets after he tried to obtain a copy of interviews with a Communist leader purged after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong national who works for The Straits Times, a Singaporean newspaper, would be the first reporter for a foreign publication to be charged in China. Mary Lau, his wife, said: “He told me that he expected to be shut up for a long time. It seems they suspect him of stealing state secrets.” Mr... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413401/posts#comment Mon, 30 May 2005 23:56:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413140/posts "Since June Fourth, the Chinese government has talked constantly about respecting its citizens' "right to exist." Yet five years ago [sixteen now] guns and tanks deprived countless outstanding young Chinese men and women of their "right to exist" in a single night. This is nothing but hypocrisy.          As the mother of a victim, there is no way for me to forget these boys and girls and men and women, including my own son, who died in pools of blood. I want the people of the world to know that they once lived in this world, that this world once belonged... China Human Rights Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413140/posts#comment Mon, 30 May 2005 13:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1412648/posts No matter how hard the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase the tragic events that took place on June 4, 1989, they are and will forever remain part of a history they have yet to face. With the sixteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre approaching, I decided to reproduce a few selections from various sources. Unfortunately, there aren't any online references to link to. So, I have reproduced excerpts from the original publications for use here on The Horses Mouth. The first selection was written by Yang Jianli, a former doctoral student in mathematics at the University of... The Horses Mouth http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1412648/posts#comment Sun, 29 May 2005 10:38:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412168/posts BEIJING (AFP) - More than 100 relatives of people killed in the Tiananmen massacre have called on the government to apologize as the 16th anniversary of the tragedy approaches. In an open letter by 125 relatives to President Hu Jintao, the Tiananmen Mothers group said the government's recent accusations against Japan for failing to acknowledge its World War II atrocities were meaningless because it has not apologized for its own transgressions. "You and your predecessors have wiped the memory of the June 4 massacre from the books and have covered up this despicable event from history," the letter said.... Agence France-Presse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412168/posts#comment Sat, 28 May 2005 08:57:47 GMT