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Miriam ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช

Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. During my time living in China, I once asked my colleagues about this event, but they vehemently claimed to have no knowledge of it. This is a photograph of the aftermath, it's illegal in China.

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Miriamm OFC not.

Even talking about it is basically a felony and prosecuted worse than holocaust denial in Germany ever would be.

DELETED

@Miriamm itโ€™s astonishing how little they know. They buried a full train there with the bodies still inside to hide a high speed train crash

The Life of Brian

@Miriamm I'm going to share this on Weixin. It's one I've never seen before. Thanks for posting.

Orion (he/him)

@Miriamm I once casually mentioned it to a class of international students. Everyone has head of it except the two from China. So someone pulled it up on their phone, and I watched these two witness that famous video for the first time. I asked how they could have never seen in. They said, โ€œWeโ€™re Chinese!โ€ As if to say: duh, our country doesnโ€™t show us this shit!

Alfred M. Szmidt

@Miriamm China is a terrorist state much like Russia. Donโ€™t do business with either.

Wladek_P

@Miriamm
Never forget crimes like that, also we should never forget Mexico 1968 Tlatelolco's massacre.

Eva Chanda

@Miriamm
Not as inspiring as Man with Shopping Bags in Front of Tanks, but it's the truth of happened. #Tienanmen1989 #NeverForget #Tienanmen

Jack William Bell

@Miriamm

I think this could have used a CW, or at least hiding the image. I found it disturbing, as would any decent human being. But if it bothered me you know there are people who might find it extremely triggering.

Daniel ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿ––

@Miriamm I was surprised to learn from some Chinese engineers that flew down to do some work with me thought that the Dali Lama was a terrorist and killed lots of people, and that they rescued Tibet his evil, oppressive dictatorship. Itโ€™s incredible how much control you can have over people through the media.

YoYunix

@Miriamm I believe that by trying to censor all mentions of the massacre, the CCP might have actually made it easier to find out about what happened that day. That colleague of yours most likely knew what happened, or at least had some idea of it, but wouldnโ€™t say because people get killed for talking about it.

Andy Daitsman

@Miriamm PBS Frontline ran a spectacular documentary about the Tienanmen Uprising back in the mid-90s called Tienanmen: The Gate of Heavenly Peace. Some bootlegged copies are available online, but the producers only make it available for sale or rental.

Watching it, though, was one of those live-changing events for me.

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