{"id":1828,"date":"2009-06-04T18:16:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T01:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2009-06-04T18:16:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T01:16:52","slug":"20-year-anniversary-of-chinas-public-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/04\/20-year-anniversary-of-chinas-public-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"20-Year Anniversary of China’s Public Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twenty years ago, on June 4, 1989, the Chinese government ordered its military to kill the unarmed peaceful student protesters for democracy gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The army then shot the students and ran them over with tanks. In its murderous effort to suppress any form of free expression or protest, the Chinese government and its military murdered the people in Tiananmen Square while the entire world watched. China is now preventing any sort of commemoration or discussion of those events or the twenty-year anniversary by almost completely shutting down internet access to any material that could possibly mention the murder of Chinese people in Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n

You can see the police with umbrellas blocking the view of the BBC news cameraman in the embedded video. The entire square is closed to the press on this important day in Chinese history. The government does not want anyone in China to know anything about or understand what happened in 1989.<\/p>\n

It is an honor to have a web site banned in China. Candlelight Stories receives a large number of visits from China and is actually used in English classes there. However, Candlelight Stories urges the citizens of China to wake up in the morning and completely overthrow and eliminate their oppressive government. It would be enlightening to see the government officials of China dragged by Chinese citizens into the middle of Tiananmen Square where the world could serve as witness to the end of this horrendous period in Chinese history.\u00a0 Why any company or country does any business at all with the brutal despots ruling China is a complete and pitiful mystery to any rational thinker.\u00a0 And people who site see in China would have probably been perfectly comfortable touring concentration camps in 1944.<\/p>\n

Now, China, press the red button and ban me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago, on June 4, 1989, the Chinese government ordered its military to kill the unarmed peaceful student protesters for democracy gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The army then shot the students and ran them over with tanks. In its murderous effort to suppress any form of free expression or protest, the Chinese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,163,160],"tags":[2495,447,382],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-china","tag-despotism","tag-free-expression"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t