Rights activists in Hong Kong plan a photo exhibit at a June 4 Memorial Hall to mark the 32nd anniversary of the bloodshed that ended the Beijing Spring.
of june 4, 1989. the day of the massacre. even the number, these numbers are banned on the internet in china. neil: is that right? the reports we have the time is that hundreds could ve been killed but i ve also heard thousands. tens of thousands according to newly released i had to crawl over a tank in order to survive. one of my friends, a 19-year-old student, was gunned down. neil: when you hear that china has become a much bigger economic power since then, they wouldn t dare risk what they did in tiedeman square now, what do you say? it s not that they wouldn t dare to risk. the very nature is violence and lies. the whole regime has been built on that. 70 years of blood, of millions of people. we re talking about tens of
pompeo calling for a full public accounting of that day. and he said beginning so would be the communist party s willingness to respect rights. that s not the case. the secretary says over the decades that followed, the united states hoped that china s integration into the international system would lead to a more open tolerant society. those hopes have been dashed. china s one-party state tolerates no dissent and abuses human rights when they serve their interests. secretary pompeo specifically referenced china s representation of the muslim majority with surveillance detention and political reeducation. on capitol hill today, in front of a congressional commission a survivor and student organizer of those protests from 30 years ago spoke about his experience. on june 4, 1989, the chinese communist party sent in troops
reporter: well, i mean, people here are allowed to talk about it. they re allowed to commemorate the 30th anniversary, which is what people are gearing up to do here later this evening on this soggy day in hong kong in victoria park, but in china, it is strictly sensors, even references to the date, june 4, 1989 and code words that suggest that are strictly censored on the chinese social media. it s been stricken from the history books in mainland china, so hong kong, which has this special status is the only place in modern day china where people are allowed to honor not only the massacre with tanks and troops of the protesters that gathered by the hundreds and thousands in beijing s tiananmen square but they re also able to remember the weeks of pro-democracy protests that led up to the deadly massacre, and we still don t know officially how many people died on that
today is the 25th year anniversary of the tiananmen square demonstrations. the six-week uprising that began with the sudden death of the reformer and evolved into a broader night for democracy. on june 4, 1989, the chinese government ordered a military crackdown on student protests. images from tiananmen square showed arm troops and tanks and people s liberation army suppressing the movement with a brutal efficiency, even shooting many protesters dead in the street. today in hong kong, thousand held a vigil. hong kong was not part of the mainland in 1989 and still remains a semiautonomous city state. one of the places connected to china where public demonstrations are occurring. why? that s because the government of course in beijing has spent decade suppressing even the mere existence of the tiananmen square protests. that means no discussion, news coverage and basic references to june 4th, this anniversary date, are scrubbed from the internet.