Hong Kong Citizens Observe Vigil To Remember Tiananmen Massacre (3)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-06-05 15:08 ID:YecKHcy7

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2235943728
"People in Hong Kong held a candlelight vigil on the 16th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Almost 45,000 people took part in the annual event in Victoria Park on Saturday. They demanded Beijing to acknowledge the June 4, 1989 assault that left hundreds dead."

"Protesters laid wreaths and flowers and observed a minute's silence for the victims."

2 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-06-05 15:11 ID:YecKHcy7

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Tiananmen-massacre-all-too-real-for-those-still-in-prison/2005/06/05/1117910186530.html?oneclick=true
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Tiananmen massacre all too real for those still in prison
"Yu Dongyue is a broken, mentally deranged man after 16 years of imprisonment that included two years in solitary, electric shocks, beatings and being tied to a post in the hot sun for days.

Once a bright young journalist and art critic with a provincial Chinese newspaper, the 37-year-old babbles incomprehensibly to visitors, cannot recognise his family or friends and consumes his urine and excrement.

He is one of up to 250 people still in jail for their involvement in the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, which was put down 16 years ago by the People's Liberation Army.

Yu is serving a life term, one of the harshest sentences meted out, and remains in Hunan Province's No.1 Prison long after many organisers of the Tiananmen movement were released and allowed to travel into exile.

His crime: to hurl eggshells filled with red paint at the giant portrait of Mao Zedong"

3 Name: Ruyter 2005-12-05 13:49 ID:dlaSzQFO

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