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Saturday, June 4, 2011

"TIANANMEN" PLUS TWENTY-TWO: June 4, 2011


"TIANANMEN" 
(June 4, 1989) 
plus 
Twenty-Two 


LOOKING UP AT THE TOP 
OF THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE 
FACING TIANANMEN SQUARE 

Twenty-two years after June 3-4, 1989, twenty-seven days until the Chinese Communist Party celebrates the ninetieth anniversary of its founding, and in the season of Jasmine and the Arab Spring, the People's Republic of China expressed its displeasure with being asked to account for those "killed, detained or missing" in the crushing of the Tiananmen movement. 

Hong Kongers held their annual candlelight vigil on the anniversary, while the regime in Beijing marked it "by rounding up yet more of their critics...." 

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