Give the Chinese
students their history back!
In
1989 the Chinese students were massacred on the Square of the Heavenly Peace.
The students had been occupying the square for months in an attempt to press
the Chinese government to take steps towards democracy and to fight against
corruption. But on 4th June 1989 the regime threw in the army
against the students.
The story is banned in China, but all the
students’ newspaper articles, fliers etc. have been collected by the democracy
movement in Hong Kong. These collections of documents have now been scanned and
put on the Internet from where they can be downloaded for free, see
Many of the young dissidents imprisoned in the
wake of the crackdown are still in jail and no longer young. Nevertheless the
world’s leaders are doing ´business as usual´ with the totalitarian regime in
Beijing. They are considering cancelling the weapon’s embargo and other
sanctions implemented as a protest against the massacre.
Thousands of Chinese students are studying at
universities and other institutions of education in the West. Most of them do
not know their own history. Therefore we invite all pro-democracy institutions
and scholars to download and print out this documentation, place it on the
shelves of their libraries and hand it out as a gift to their Chinese students
on 4th June, the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. In this way
we can make a contribution to preserve the memory of the victims and maybe
inspire a new generation of Chinese to democracy as a possibility also for
China.
We call on everybody to support this initiative
and to mail this appeal to other institutions of education where there are
Chinese students or others who might be interested in preserving and
distributing the knowledge about the Tiananmen massacre.
The initiative of this appeal and informative
campaign is a co-operation between the democracy movement in Hong Kong and
Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot who has put up an 8 metre high Pillar of Shame
in Hong Kong to commemorate the Tiananmen massacre.
The documents about Tiananmen: http://www.aidoh.dk/4june89
The
democracy movement in Hong Kong:
HK Alliance in Support of Patriotic
Democratic Movements of China
Inquiry phone number: 852-2782-6111, Fax number: 852-2770-6083
E-mail address: contact@alliance.org.hk
Website: http://www.alliance.org.hk
About
human Rights in China:
Contact to Jens Galschiot:
E-mail:
aidoh@aidoh.dk, Internet: http://www.aidoh.dk, tel. +45 6618 4058
Banevaenget 22, DK-5270 Odense N,
Denmark