June 4, Online
Chinese security forces rounded up more government critics ahead of Saturday’s anniversary of the crushing of the 1989 pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, adding to an already harsh crackdown on dissent, activists said.
Stricter measures against dissidents are routine on the June 4 anniversary, but this year coincides with the most sweeping suppression campaign in many years. Hundreds of activists, lawyers and bloggers have been questioned, detained or simply disappeared in the four-month campaign that aims to quash even the possibility of a pro-democracy movement forming along the lines of those sweeping the Arab world.
Bao Tong, a former aide to the late liberal Communist Party secretary Zhao Ziyang, was taken to an unknown location by security officers this week along with his wife, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a group that publicizes information on dissidents collected from sources within China.
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Yet another show-off by the Chinese dictator. A population of more than 1.3 billion doesn’t seem to react to this kind of iron-fist rule.
Venus
Jakarta
The unidentified young man with the shopping bags standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square will remain one of the abiding and living memories of the invincibility of the human spirit and the desire for freedom — even in the face of a corrupt and paranoid Police State like China.And in time, his iconic stance will bare fruit and conquer.
This has happened repeatedly in history. After all, Moses brought down the might of the Pharaohs and the Egyptian empire with a stick. Tyranny thinks in months or weeks, freedom thinks in centuries.
Phillip Turnbull
Serpong, Banten
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