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June 5-30: Crackdown continues. Troops seize the universities. Some students flee the country. Workers sympathetic to the democracy movement are arrested. Amnesty International reports over 1000 workers and students executed...
...June 4, 1989, crackdown surprised and shocked the world. At the time it seemed almost incomprehensible that the government chose to massacre its own people, especially since millions of ordinary citizens had filled the streets of Beijing in the previous weeks to prevent the army from reaching the protesters...
...crackdown was not surprising, MacFarquhar says, given the demands of the protesters for Deng's ouster. What was most unusual, he says, was that the protests continued for so long in defiance of Party orders. At the time the government tried to stamp out the demonstrations, but could not because of the tremendous outpouring of support for the students from the workers of Beijing...
Immediately after the crackdown, international criticism of the communist government briefly made China something of a parish among nations. Among world figures, only Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania and Yassir Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization expressed open support for the Chinese government...
...weeks before Congress is scheduled to debate renewal of China's most- favored-nation status, Beijing last week announced the release of 211 dissidents, jailed since last June's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Congressional leaders, however, said they were unlikely to be swayed by the move. Senator Richard Lugar warned that there was "very considerable sentiment" to deny China the MFN status it has held since 1980. The impact of the prisoner release was also diluted by allegations from Xu Lin, a Chinese embassy official who defected two weeks ago. According to Xu, Beijing has been systematically harassing its expatriate...