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6-4. Tiananmen Revisited

It is here in China, May 35th, 2021.

A false date that I say because in this country, no such date as June 4th exists anymore.

This year marks the darkest remembrance of the Tiananmen Square incident yet. For more than 30 years, vigils were held in the free city of Hong Kong

to mark the anniversary of this senseless, tragic, monstrous crime against the people of China

and of the ideal of democracy.

But not this year.

As a result of the brutal, violent, deadly crackdown that stripped even the veneer of rule of law from Hong Kong,

rendering it from a jewel of liberty and democracy on the mainland to just another cowed

and defeated,

strictly controlled police state of China, those lights of vigil have gone out, probably forever.

And so it is with more urgency than ever that I urge those of us who can to not forget the crimes

committed by the government of the People's Republic of China on June 4,

1989, nor its many crimes and affronts to the rule of law, civility, and even basic humanity

since then. Now, more than ever, it is critical that the Politburo of Beijing not be allowed

to enact its campaign of collective amnesia, about Tiananmen, about Tibet,

about the millions of Uyghurs even now suffering in Xinjiang, and even strangled in the cradle,

Hong Kong City.

Today, I will be replaying not only the British intelligence memo, as I have in years

past, but two additional primary source documents

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