06.04.1989 (for saturday)

i am going to be out of town for the next couple days and am not sure if i will be able to post then, so i am doing it now...



june 4, not a day that many will place with significance. but my entire last semester of college i spent hour after hour researching a country that many know little about. my paper focused on a horrible tragedy and how the country still does not face up to it.
sixteen years ago in tiananmen square in china, hundreds possibly thousands of people were murdered for wanting democracy.
the picture of the guy standing in front of the tank, i think, shows what the students and people who wanted change in china were facing. it was a sad period and i urge you to read more about this and all that is happening in the world so that maybe one day we can ensure that it won't happen again...
do me a favor, and observe a moment of silence for the unknown amount of people who were killed that day.


petition to support the tiananmen mothers
amnesty report on tiananmen for 10 year anniversary