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Family members of the civilians killed by Chinese troops at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 sent their annual letter to dictator Xi Jinping on Friday, vowing to remember the dead despite the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to erase the massacre from history.
“It is too cruel that this happened along a 10-kilometer stretch of Chang’an Boulevard in Beijing in peacetime,” they said.n this June 4, 1989, file photo, a rickshaw driver pedals wounded people, with the help of bystanders, to a nearby hospital in Beijing after they were injured during clashes with Chinese soldiers in Tiananmen Square.The letter denounced China’s efforts to justify or obscure the massacre as “intolerable.
Other Chinese activists mournfully observed that the Chinese Communist Party has been very successful at using brainwashing techniques and intimidation to rewrite history and marginalize pro-democracy movements.against Xi’s coronavirus lockdowns, both of which seemed like genuine threats to the regime’s power at their peak, before they were ruthlessly shut down.
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