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alp227

(32,037 posts) Sun Jun 3, 2012, 08:18 PM Jun 2012

US urges China to free Tiananmen Square activists

Source: BBC

The US government has urged China to free all those still in prison 23 years after Beijing's 1989 crackdown against protesters in Tiananmen Square.

The US state department message also called on China to "provide a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing".

Beijing consider the June 1989 events a counter-revolutionary revolt and defend their response.

In 1989 the army shot dead hundreds of civilians rallying for democracy.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18317793

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US urges China to free Tiananmen Square activists (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2012 OP

pot meet kettle... n/t Earth_First Jun 2012 #1

Our complacency makes us complicit bahrbearian Jun 2012 #3

"US urges" after 23 years? bahrbearian Jun 2012 #2

I note that the Western media don't refer to "massacre" any more - they say "crackdown." David__77 Jun 2012 #4

China Rejects US Call to Release Tiananmen Prisoners Eugene Jun 2012 #5

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)

1. pot meet kettle... n/t

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sun Jun 3, 2012, 08:31 PM

Jun 2012

bahrbearian

(13,466 posts)

3. Our complacency makes us complicit

Reply to Earth_First (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 3, 2012, 09:00 PM

Jun 2012

Remember, also Bradley Manning

bahrbearian

(13,466 posts)

2. "US urges" after 23 years?

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sun Jun 3, 2012, 08:57 PM

Jun 2012

David__77

(23,430 posts)

4. I note that the Western media don't refer to "massacre" any more - they say "crackdown."

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2012, 01:02 AM

Jun 2012

I find that interesting. I don't see China making any new statements on 1989 changing their position, unless someone gets into power who wants to disorient and dissolve the government like a Chinese Gorbachev.

Eugene

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5. China Rejects US Call to Release Tiananmen Prisoners

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Mon Jun 4, 2012, 10:58 AM

Jun 2012

Source: Voice of America

China Rejects US Call to Release Tiananmen Prisoners

VOA News
June 04, 2012

China's foreign ministry has expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with a U.S. call for Beijing to free all those still imprisoned for the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

Foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told reporters that the U.S. State Department call was a gross intervention in China's internal affairs and a groundless accusation against the Chinese government.

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