20 years
remembering the tiananmen square massacre anniversary yesterday – where hundreds, perhaps thousands died…
many were summarily imprisoned or executed…
and where today there is still no democracy.
(more incredible photos at the big picture and time’s photoessay “photographing tank man”)
the grief, the exile, the international outrage.
did it matter?
those who were born after – for whom the media memory has been wiped clean, erased from the page, the history scrubbed clean of bloodstains – do they really know what any of those students died for?
i wish i knew.
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Comment by Dave
19.06.2009 @ 19:47 pm
watched a frontline report “the tank man” the other night. what I found most interesting is that when the iconic photo of the man standing in front of the tank is shown to students from one of their best universities, they had NO IDEA what it was a picture of. NOT A CLUE. That really opened my eyes….just thought I would share that.