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A UK cable on the Tiananmen Square Master from June 5, 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.

It's 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.

Thirty years ago, in 1989, between April 15 and June 4, 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 4, after weeks of buildup, the world watched in horror as the Communist Party

of China, led then by Deng Xiaoping, Li Peng, and Yang Shikun, 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

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