Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'massacre'
A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...
Police Quash Tiananmen Memorials
By Radio Free AsiaJune 03, 2010 China blocks efforts to commemorate the 1989 massacre in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrators. Attempts to stage public events and protests commemorating the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement...
We will NEVER forget
From the publishers of Truth About China on June 04, 2010...
Tiananmen Mothers demand end to government silence over massacre
By AsiaNews.it04 June 2010 Open Letter of the families of those killed in the massacre of June 4, 1989. The Party does not respond and waits for them to "die" to get rid of the problem. With the anniversary approaching,...
Guinea Boasts of Deal With Chinese Company
By Adam Nossiter | THE NEW YORK TIMESOctober 14, 2009 Guinea's military government, facing international sanctions and heavy strictures over a mass killing of unarmed demonstrators, is highlighting a recent agreement with a Chinese company that could provide it with...
Decision time for China...
Gulf Daily News - The Voice of BahrainOctober 07, 2009 Sixty years ago, his army victorious, Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square and announced a new era for China after a terrible civil war...
Timeline: Xinjiang unrest
By BBC World NewsJuly 8, 2009 Ethnic violence has erupted in China's western province of Xinjiang, with scores of people being killed and hundreds injured. Here are some of the most recent developments: 5 JULY A small number of Uighurs...
Pelosi Sees No Improvement In China on Human Rights
Agence France-Presse | The Washington PostJune 06, 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday she sees no progress in China on human rights, regretting that neither economic reforms nor U.S. pressure are making Beijing budge. Pelosi, who visited China...
Police swarm Tiananmen Square on anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writers via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News04 June 2009 BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in...
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESJune 3, 2009 China's government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Micarosoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens...
Tiananmen Square Remembered: Three Participants Tell Their Stories
The Epoch TimesJune 1, 2009 On April 14, 1989 in Beijing, students began gathering to honor the death of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded former general secretary of the Communist Party. The students began calling for a number of reforms of...
Opinion: Dissent remains silenced in China
By Wu'er Kaixi | CNNMay 31, 2009 Editor's note: Wu'er Kaixi was a student leader in 1989, and since then has been living in exile outside of China. On June 4 this year, it will have been 20 years since...
20 years on, Tiananmen survivors demand 'truth' from China
By Agence France Presse (AFP) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 26, 2009 Exiled Chinese dissidents who survived the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstration said on Tuesday that, after 20 years, China should be held to account for the...
Secret Memoir Offers Look Inside China's Politics
By Erik Eckholm | THE NEW YORK TIMESMay 15, 2009 In May 1989, as he feuded with hard-line party rivals over how to handle the students occupying Tiananmen Square, China's Communist Party chief requested a personal audience with Deng Xiaoping,...
Netizens Defy Tiananmen Silencing
By RADIO FREE ASIAApril 22, 2009 As the 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches, Chinese netizens find ways to work around government censorship. HONG KONG An article criticizing China's deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing has...
1.9 lakh killed in China's nuclear tests ***
*** lakh is a unit in the Indian measuring system 1.9 lakh = 190,000 Thus title means 190,000 killed in China's nuclear testsThe Times of India - April 19, 2009 The nuclear test grounds in the wastes of the Gobi...
China Rights Activist Beaten in Cemetery
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesApril 07, 2009 Last Saturday was tomb-sweeping day, when the Chinese traditionally honor the dead. Sun Wenguang, a 75-year-old retired professor, was one of many to visit the cemetery. Apparently, though, he chose...
China "mothers" urge reckoning with 1989 bloodshed
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsFebruary 27, 2009 A group representing families of demonstrators killed or maimed in the armed crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago has urged China to name the dead, denouncing official silence...
Made in China: The planes and guns slaughtering Darfur's innocents
thisislondon.co.uk from the Evening StandardJuly 13, 2008 Military equipment and weapons made in China are being used against civilians in Darfur in violation of a United Nations arms embargo in the troubled region of Sudan. One Chinese-built army truck is...
China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'
By Hilary Andersson reporting from Darfur | BBC NewsJuly 13, 2008 The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur. The Panorama TV programme tracked down Chinese army lorries in the Sudanese...
China's loyal youth
By Matthew Forney | International Herald Tribune April 15, 2008 Many sympathetic Westerners view Chinese society along the lines of what they saw in the waning days of the Soviet Union: a repressive government backed by old hard-liners losing its...
AN APPEAL FROM THE TIANANMEN MOTHERS TO THE GOVERNMENT: SET A TIMETABLE FOR DIALOGUE ON THE JUNE FOURTH MASSACRE
Published by HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINAFebruary 28, 2008 On the eve of the Eleventh National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, we, a group of mothers of those killed in the June Fourth Massacre and, therefore, victims...
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