4 June, 1989
'A day that we do not want to remember but dare not to forget.'
22 years ago, a group of students and workers marched to Beijing demanding free media and dialogue between authorities and student representatives. A declaration demanded the government to accelerate the political reform. After a series of hunger strike and protests, the government sent the army and tanks to block the entry of the students. Thousands were killed.
In these 22 years, people have been crying out for justice to be done in this massacre. Government officials, as expected, denied the killing and claimed only few deaths. For all those years, the Chinese government is working her way to strengthen the country's economy, so that people will put the political concern aside. 'I understand the feelings of the Hong Kong people towards June 4 Incident. But it happened many years ago. Between now and then, our country has made impressive achievements in all areas of development, which have also brought economic prosperity to Hong Kong,' said Mr. Donald Tsang, the Chief Executive of the HKSAR government.
Yet, no matter how hard you are trying to suppress one thing, it will come back. Memories, photographs, documents and passages, they tell us the history, the past and the calls for justice.
The June Forth Incident is not simply just an incident. It is an significant indication of the first large-scale democratic movement in China, a symbol of people's fight against the government and sadly, a witness of the government's cruelty over the people.
We are coming a long and hard way to demand dissident to be released from prisons and suppressions. China, are you listening?
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