19 years ago today the Chinese government put out (pretty emphatically) the Tiananmen Square protests. Not a great day in history for China. Of course, no mention of this historical date has been made in any newspaper or TV broadcast that I've encountered. Time Asia has a couple interesting takes on this here and here.
In related news, the Chinese government has prohibited all TV stations from broadcasting images of the Square during the Olympics, presumably to discourage reporters from mentioning what happened there earlier.
Update: In 2005, a writer named Shi Tao found a Chinese government document forbidding journalists from mentioning the "June 4th event", and passed it on the Asia Democracy Foundation. He got 10 years in jail for that, and the lawyer that represented him got his license suspended for a year. Good times all around. Surprisingly, I can still get to Shi Tao's Wikipedia entry here. Maybe it's being kept up as a warning.
2 comments:
Yo Geoff, are you getting shut down or something? Or was the "Image not available" sign on purpose?
I wish I was getting shut down. That would mean that people are reading.
I can actually see the picture fine form this side. Maybe Canada's censoring you.
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