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A massacre, erased: China tried to repress the memory of the brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Thirty years later, Beijing is still terrified of its legacy.

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    I've been seeing a lot of articles about Tiananmen due to the anniversary today, and with each one I simple can't stop reading. It is really such a tragic story from something that was...

    I've been seeing a lot of articles about Tiananmen due to the anniversary today, and with each one I simple can't stop reading. It is really such a tragic story from something that was fundamentally about hope for a better future. The ensuing cover up and enforced silence in the intervening years so starkly contrasts with the hopes (as I understand them) of the demonstrators that there is a sad, cruel irony to the whole thing.

    With today's technology and China's well known subversion of it to track and monitor their populace, it's hard to imagine a similar movement even arising in today's China. Perhaps too with the prosperity of the last few decades, there would be less need for one too - I don' t know. All I do know is that events like this in the country's past, coupled with an absolute lack of reckoning on any scale, make me very scared of China's ever increasing habit of monitoring, censoring, and oppression.

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