US urges China to free Tiananmen Square activists
Source: BBC
The US government has urged China to free all those still in prison 23 years after Beijing's 1989 crackdown against protesters in Tiananmen Square.
The US state department message also called on China to "provide a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing".
Beijing consider the June 1989 events a counter-revolutionary revolt and defend their response.
In 1989 the army shot dead hundreds of civilians rallying for democracy.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18317793
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Remember, also Bradley Manning
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)David__77
(23,503 posts)I find that interesting. I don't see China making any new statements on 1989 changing their position, unless someone gets into power who wants to disorient and dissolve the government like a Chinese Gorbachev.
Eugene
(61,945 posts)Source: Voice of America
VOA News
June 04, 2012
China's foreign ministry has expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with a U.S. call for Beijing to free all those still imprisoned for the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations.
Foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told reporters that the U.S. State Department call was a gross intervention in China's internal affairs and a groundless accusation against the Chinese government.
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Read more: http://www.voanews.com/content/china-rejects-us-call-release-tiananmen-prisoners/1147004.html