'My heart is always broken': Diaspora mark 33 years since Tiananmen crackdown with vigils held in Australia

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Thirty three years since the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the diaspora in Australia vows never to forget what happened - even in the face of efforts by China's government to erase all traces of it.

"The fact that so many people died for this hope made it all the more precious."

Months-long protests in 2019 were triggered over a controversial bill allowing the extradition of Chinese Communist Party critics from Hong Kong to China. "I believe that every person who escaped from Hong Kong will feel the responsibility of spreading such a desire for democracy overseas," she said. He said the diaspora do feel an even greater responsibility to ensure the event is not forgotten in the face of stronger efforts by the Chinese government to erase all traces of it.

In a statement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday paid tribute to the lives lost on 4 June 1989.

 

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They....and the rest of the world will never forget when western media flogs it for all its worth every year! Tell me, did they approach SBS for the story...or did SBS scout for willing participants? Why not put your resources to good use and do reports on America's gun lobby.

China did not try to erase it. It is publicly available on their website. What China and other countries hate is US interventions/color revolutions/regime change ops. Get that right! How is this democratic?

😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤 A failed CIA regime change ops. Will US pay for the loss of lives? 200-300 people died outside the square, half were police and soldiers!

Try to keep up. Try to avoid CIA beat ups, even if they're decades old.

China will never be a great nation until it accepts the idea of its citizens having a legitimate right to disagree with its government’s policies and give them the right to express themselves freely and see and read what other people think.

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