Friday, November 10, 2006

Tiananmen Square


A squared-off section in the infamous Tiananmen Square where anywhere between hundreds and thousands of students, intellectuals, and labor rights protestors were killed (depending on the source) in 1989.

The square was filled with people celebrating the Chuseok holiday and large floral arrangements.

I didn’t see any kind of plaque or memorial, yet China's not exactly the kind of country you’d expect to memorialize the victims of state sponsored violence--especially since the protesters were pretty much denounced as traitors.

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