Edit: YouTube link if Vimeo gives you issues
Just a reminder: yesterday (June 4 2024) marked the 35 year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
Some relevant links:
- Associated Press: Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown
- Hong Kong Free Press: In Pictures: Hong Kong’s US, EU consulates mark Tiananmen crackdown anniversary with candles
- Al Jazeera: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te says Tiananmen ‘will not disappear in torrent of history’
Here is an album of photos from the protest in 1989, along with explanations of the historical context:
Warning: blood, gore, visible injuries, death
The ending photos of the candlelight vigil in Hong Kong are chilling. Never forget that we failed to learn our lesson and allowed democracy to die there
Holy shit!
Grisly images, had no idea it was that bad.
Was anyone else told/under the assumption this guy got run over? Wild.
I remember the video from the next day and a lot of people were run over. All of the acts of that part of history get conflated in memory. That’s why it’s good to have video and good to have professional historians.
Link? I’ve never seen this.
I don’t have links, but at least from what I’ve heard, they were washing people down the drains afterward.
I don’t have a link right now. I literally remember seeing it on the television on the nightly news in the United States.
I would like to see the video is you provide a link, later.
https://youtu.be/s9A51jN19zw Biased, but has a lot of footage.
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What a brave dude and a terrible thing. At least all 42 000 Chinese students were granted full asylum in a unilateral decision by Bob Hawke, our PM at the time.
Would have preferred no music. I don’t need cues to tell me when I should feel suspense.
Brave dude. No one knows if he was apprehended except for the intelligence or military services in China.
At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then.
If you go to Tiananmen today, you will see and hear a lot of discussion of this troubling time in China’s recent history. Sure, sometimes the debate about one party authoritarian rule vs the colonial nature of Western-style democracy can get heated, but there are police around in clearly marked uniforms to make sure it doesn’t get out of hand. Never again!
This, folks, is CCP propaganda.
Edit: I got whooshed, lemmy.ml has me on high alert
it’s obviously humor
Check your carbon monoxide detector
At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then.
this is hilarious
I thought the reference to clearly marked police was the icing on the cake, but people may not have read that far.
I don’t think anyone who has been to Tiananmen Square can do anything but laugh at my comment.
your humor flew right below their radars
Can’t win them all.
So many people down voting you can’t spot the obvious sarcasm. Well done haha
At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then. If you go to Tiananmen today, you will see and hear a lot of discussion of this troubling time in China’s recent history.
Yes, that’s one of the CCP’s best qualities, to be sure. It’s so rare to see a government actively encourage their citizens to discuss such major events,
Such restraint. He could have annihilated that entire column of tanks with just one swing of his TREMENDOUS BALLS.
The cojones on this dude.
It says Log in to watch :k
Interesting, maybe that’s a region thing I don’t get that.
Here it is on YouTube though
This kills the tankie
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