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A UK cable on the Tiananmen Square Massacre from June 5th, 1989.

History is as often as it is anything else, about remembering the things that we might

collectively wish to choose to forget, or worse yet,

remembering things that others, especially those in power, might wish us to forget.

Is one of the main jobs of historians and those who study history to do their best then to not allow that to happen

to ensure that even if history is ultimately written by the winner

that they're at least not allowed to burn all the books or bury the scholars in opposition.

30 years ago in 1989, between April 15th and June 4th, the capital city of China, Beijing, was

gripped by mass protests led by university students, factory workers,

government reformists, and regular everyday citizens who wanted substantive

democratic change to their country's government.

But on June 4th, after weeks of buildup, the world watched in horror as the Communist Party of China,

led then by Deng Xiaoping, Li-Peng, and Yang Shakuin, among others, as anti-reformist hardliners within the party.

Order that the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police be sent in

to the center point of the month and a half long protest,

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