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In Korea, a mime dressed as a Chinese soldier commemorates Tienanmen Square — BBC

In Korea, a mime dressed as a Chinese soldier commemorates Tienanmen Square — BBC

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These were peasants and workers who made a living pedaling bicycle rickshaws, carrying passengers or freight around Beijing. It was those rickshaw drivers who slowly pedaled out toward the troops to collect the bodies of the dead and injured. Then they raced back to us, legs straining furiously, rushing toward the nearest hospital.

One stocky rickshaw driver had tears streaming down his cheeks as he drove past me to display a badly wounded student so that I could photograph or recount the incident. That driver perhaps couldn’t have defined democracy, but he had risked his life to try to advance it.

Nicholas Kristoff
A former Chinese soldier who published a letter on the Internet calling for a reassessment of the Tiananmen crackdown of June 4, 1989 has been detained by police, a rights group said on Friday. Zhang Shijun’s letter issued earlier this month urged Chinese president Hu Jintao to “use his wisdom” to officially reassess the “June Fourth tragedy, the event in China’s recent history that causes bitter weeping and choking back tears.” He was taken away by police from his home in Tengzhou, Shandong province, around 2 a.m. on Friday, the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch group said. — Reuters

A former Chinese soldier who published a letter on the Internet calling for a reassessment of the Tiananmen crackdown of June 4, 1989 has been detained by police, a rights group said on Friday.

Zhang Shijun’s letter issued earlier this month urged Chinese president Hu Jintao to “use his wisdom” to officially reassess the “June Fourth tragedy, the event in China’s recent history that causes bitter weeping and choking back tears.”

He was taken away by police from his home in Tengzhou, Shandong province, around 2 a.m. on Friday, the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch group said. — Reuters