Provided by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard
Taipei (Reuters) -The world will never forget in 1989. The President of Taiwan and the highest US diplomat said the 36th event, Beijing, as a taboo and prevents public in memory, said in Tiananmen Square in Tiananmen Square.
Events in Beijing Central Beijing Square in 1989. On June 4, when the Chinese army opened fire to complete student -led dememocracy protests, China is not publicly discussed and the anniversary is not officially marked.
Public commemorations take place in overseas cities, including Taipei, where senior leaders of Taiwan government often use the anniversary to criticize China and call for it to face what it has done.
On Wednesday, the Facebook post praised the courage of those who participated in protests, saying that human rights are a concept shared by Taiwan and other democracy that crosses generations and borders.
“The commemoration of June 4th in the thyanane incident is not only to be sad, but to capture this memory,” said La, who hates as a “separatist” and rejected his repeated negotiation offers.
“Authoritarian governments often choose to silence and forget history, and democratic societies decide to save the truth and refuse to forget those who have given their lives and their dreams – the idea of human rights,” he added.
“Not only do we refuse to forget the story, but we will implement our core values every day.”
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday praised the courage of Chinese people who were killed in a bloody coping.
“Today, we mention the courage of the Chinese people who have been killed, trying to fulfill their main freedoms, as well as those who continue to suffer persecution in order to accountability and justice on June 4, 1989,” the Rubis statement said.
“CCP is actively trying to censor facts, but the world will never forget,” he said, talking about the Chinese Communist Party.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to the request to comment.
Security in Hong Kong
Before 1989 June 4th Dawn, Chinese tanks rolled to the Tianan Reds Square, crushing the demonstrations of democracy in the weeks of the student and employees of democracy.
China has never been a full death, but the rights group and witnesses say the number can enter thousands. China has accused protests of counter -revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the ruling Communist Party.
The Tiananmen mothers representing the relatives of the murdered persons issued their annual report this week calling for public accounting of what happened.
“The executors of the death penalty of that year died one by one, but the current government is responsible for the continuation of the ruling party in response to the Tiananmen massacre and appeal to the Tiananmen massacre,” Zhang Xianling said in a video report, whose son Wang Nan was killed.
In Hong Kong, where thousands of the anniversary was marked before 2020. The introduction of China into the National Security Act, the security was strictly around Victoria Park – the site of previous mass candle light vigil.
Hong Kong’s leader John Lee said police would take strict enforcement actions against any actions that endanger national security. The performance performer was forced to leave the park around the park, and on Tuesday, customs officers raid a shop selling small white candles.
One imprisonment of a democracy activist, Chow Hang-tung, presents a 36-hour hunger strike in prison to commemorate the anniversary.
(Yinou Lee and Ben Blanchard Reports; Additional Jessie Pang and James Pomfret Notifications in Hong Kong; Edited by Michael Perry)