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June Fourth Incident Protest In 1989: The Tiananmen Square Massacre

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June Fourth Incident protests in 1989 in China also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This was a series of demonstrations led by college students, labors and intellectuals in Beijing, China from 1989 April 15 and June 4. Tiananmen square is the place where the college students, labors and intellectuals has gathered to protest against the Chinese government policy and they want to bring democracy in China, and for all of the Chinese people. They were trying to against totalitarianism; they were trying to fight what they believe in; they were trying fight for human rights; they wanted economic liberalization and democratic reform. In a word, they wanted have a no dictatorship and no totalitarian government. “When the government’s rebuff continued, thousands of students began a stakes-raising hunger strike (Lagerkvist, J. (2014).” After their demands were rejected, they still stay in …show more content…

As the new generation, we are less inclined to figure out what really happened in 1989. But we all know the Chinese government would like every Chinese people too believe nothing happened in June 4th’s night in 1989. They also want June Fourth Incident fade from the history, they were blocked all of the information about this “Massacre” trying to hide this for everyone. But truth is truth, it will never fade from people’s memory. This is like Japanese young generation are not taught about the brutality of their military during World War II about Nanjing Massacre. Japanese distorted the facts of World War II in their history textbooks. The Japanese government deny the Nanjing Massacre for “saving face” for the country. And about the June Fourth “Massacre”, it was an atrocity has no different to the L.A Riot of 1992, same as the Chinese government, the U.S government did the same thing, they rolled out the military to quell the riot, and thousands people died in the

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