Many people were killed or wounded when the Chinese military used tanks and fired on students and other democracy demonstrators gathered in and around the Beijing square on June 4, 1989. Details of the clampdown still remain unknown.
On Thursday, 121 mothers and kins of the victims released on the Internet a statement demanding the government clarify what happened in the crackdown and fix responsibility. The statement says it is becoming extremely difficult to bring a fair resolution to the incident and people are feeling terribly hopeless about their future.
The statement, carried in media reports, says human rights violations, gap between rich and poor, and corruption among bureaucrats, have only become worse in China in the past decade under the administration of President Hu Jintao. While China’s economy rapidly grew under his administration, the government missed a great opportunity to start democratizing politics and reassessing the Tiananmen incident, the statement added.
