Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young man on the videotape appeared pale and tired, but his identity was unmistakable. He was Wuer Kaixi, 21, the former Beijing Normal University freshman who emerged as the most charismatic leader during the student uprising in China, then disappeared after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He evidently spoke from hiding in Hong Kong, where he is believed to have fled in mid-June through Macao. Thanks to an effective underground of sympathizers, only six of the 21 most-wanted student leaders have been apprehended. Wuer's friends say he may go to the U.S. to organize an alliance...
...constantly surprised. Take the shock with which news of the Chinese crackdown on the democracy movement was received. Given Communism's 70-year history, marked by repeated reigns of repressive terror, only a forgetting culture could have been so taken by surprise. The week after the Tiananmen massacre, Hungary, which has a harder time forgetting, staged a moving reburial of the men executed for leading the 1956 rebellion. The commemoration reminded us that Western Communism in its 40th year produced precisely the same atrocity -- freedom crushed with tanks and terror -- that Eastern Communism is producing in this, its 40th year...
...government. It was Wuer who, though wilting from hunger, sat across from Li Peng and chastised him for arriving late to the meeting accorded the protesters. "He talked with Li Peng as an equal," said a Beijing intellectual. His denim jacket and shaggy hair became a familiar sight in Tiananmen, where the charismatic Wuer barked directives from a bullhorn and bantered with demonstrators and journalists alike. Even after other student leaders voted him off the standing committee organizing the protests, in part for advising his fellow strikers to abandon the square the day after martial law was declared, Wuer remained...
...history of troublemaking. "He's a good student, he's from a good family, he loves the people, and he loves the country," said a close friend. But like others in the protest movement, Wuer possessed a combustible mix of raw courage and naivete. Weeks before the Tiananmen massacre, he told an American reporter, "I knew that we needed an organizer who wasn't afraid...
WORLD: China claims the Tiananmen massacre never really happened...