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To remember what happened is to remember the scope of the protests,” notes NPR correspondent Louisa Lim, the author of “The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited” (to be published June 4). On June 4, 1989, the world watched as Chinese tanks rolled into #Tienanmen Square, bringing a violent end to the peaceful, student-led democracy movement and killing hundreds, maybe thousands, of citizens who sought political reform. Despite this brutal crackdown, and 25 years of harsh repression since, brave Chinese voices continue to call for democracy and human rights. The National Endowment for Democracy is proud to honor two of these voices – Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong – both locked in Chinese prisons because the regime views the power of their ideas as an existential challenge. Join us in Washington on May 29: demdigest.net/blog/peoples-republic-amnesia-tiananmen-revisited/ Peoples Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 18:20:34 +0000

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