Requests for democracy in China silenced to death on June 4, twenty years ago, when the People's Liberation Army charged against thousands of peaceful student. Today the government talks about democracy, but without vote.
tanks appeared in Tiananmen Square before dawn on June 4, 1989, to settle the protests being carried out by students and workers in favor of democracy. The ruling Communist Party has never published the number of deaths that day, nor the detainees, perhaps hide that fact for fear that any brand of past repression could threaten its hold on power today.
"We have to apologize for anything," said The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu, when asked whether the Government of the Communist Party of China (CPC, in power since 1949) is planning to apologize to the families of the dead. U.S.
calls to free the imprisoned in connection with the protests, to cease all harassment of those who took part and to initiate a dialogue with the families of the victims.
In contrast to what happened on the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre in which the square was closed to the public, this year, a sign of Beijing between confidence and caution, the square was open to visitors although partially closed for renovation, but with hundreds of police and guards present to monitor any movimiento.Pero not everyone was able to enter. Members of the police trying to prevent the foreign media report on what happened. Journalists around the world have denounced the restrictions a few days to cover the anniversary.
Authorities blocked access to Internet services like Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and foreign news talking about the anniversary of the massacre.
"Leaders only avoid this issue," , said Zhang Boshu, a philosopher who has urged Beijing to publicly acknowledge the killings. "They know that the 1989 crackdown, shooting its own citizens, was a terrible blow to its legitimacy. "
" The basic facts of what happened in that time have not changed. The nature of this tragedy has not changed much. It is still a bloody massacre of peaceful civilians, "the Tiananmen Mothers are fighting for a full accounting of what happened on June 4, 1989, some dissidents have declared in a letter last week. 
Among the images which then traveled the world, the best known is that of a student who cuts off a tank in Tiananmen Square.
Among the images which then traveled the world, the best known is that of a student who cuts off a tank in Tiananmen Square. http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20090604/silencio-apodera-plaza-tiananmen-anos-despues/279622.shtml
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