Tiananmen: Shouts That Turned To Silence

I sent a man to labor camp 20 years ago this week. His name was Xiao Bin. He was 42 years old, a factory worker from the northeast Chinese city of Dalian. It was a day after the Chinese troops had cleared out Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. It was June of 1989. The city was a wreck: streets still full of burned debris; roaming crowds of angry and excited citizens; tanks still playing chicken with students on the main thoroughfare. Full Story »

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Joel Kulenkamp
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by Joel Kulenkamp - May. 31, 2009

An eye-opening eyewitness account; I especially love the opening sentence.

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