Tiananmen Square - Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago this week dozens of protestors, many of them young university students, were massacred in Beijing as they protested for democratic governmental reforms and greater personal freedoms.   As many as 10,000 were arrested during the imposition of martial law, and many of these disappeared without a trace.

What can one say about a country that will jail and murder dissenters in cold blood?  A country that cannot reconcile itself with its past is a country living in self-denial, a country that will fail learning from that past.  Even though the Chinese government has attempted to erase all memory of its crimes against its own people striving for basic human freedom and dignity, it is important that the rest of the world stand united in its condemnation of the cruel and unnecessary slaughter of a people brave enough to stand up for their beliefs in the face of their oppressors.

To commemorate this important historical benchmark I am sharing an earlier post:

http://lookingtowardportugal.blogspot.com/search?q=Tiananmen

“Who controls the past,” George Orwell warned, “controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Resistance is never futile.  Never forget the brave souls who spoke out and acted in June 1989.