China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’

On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled the tragic square with a massive rally that is said to be the ‘largest peaceful protest in history.’ The protesters demanded political and economic reform, as well as dialogue with the communist leaders. What they wanted, ultimately, were freedom and democracy.

Today, windows of taxicabs that pass by Tiananmen Square must be closed. It’s a new rule. The square has been declared a ‘politically sensitive area.’

There is an obvious attempt to shut out the massacre from a people’s memory – the memory of how scores of people at that fateful protest were ‘crushed by tanks’ and shot to death by the Chinese army. There were reports that 2,500 people died and 7,000-10,000 people were wounded according to the Red Cross.

The Chinese government is ‘desperate to erase all memories of the thousands of innocent lives lost.’ In China, one cannot find anything written about the Tiananmen Square massacre. Neither can anyone find any accurate account of any atrocity that the communist regime has committed against the people over the 60 years of communist rule.

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There is a new breed of dissidents in China today as the country ‘tolerates a safer wave of protests’ 20 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. The ordinary Chinese are much more critical of human rights now and some of them have been keen to defend such rights.

On June 3 and 4, 1989, a military crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square left scores of people dead. The complete tally of casualties has not been released even after 20 years as the Chinese government has always been adamant to defend its right to have quelled such protests undertaken by the elite of Chinese society, specifically students and intellectuals who demanded democracy, transparency from a corrupt government, and better economic policies.

Chinese activism today is no longer conducted by intellectuals. Most of them have not graduated from college. They still demand political and economic reforms, but now largely act as the voice of the disenfranchised sectors such as workers, farmers, and microbusiness owners who, otherwise, do not have sufficient legal support. Rich people in China, specifically the elite, have had better legal options to air their grievances and fight for their rights. Protests in China today mostly come from disgruntled workers and grassroots people from the countryside. Generally, it is still justice that protesters have been fighting for

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