{"id":87919,"date":"2020-06-04T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=87919 "},"modified":"2020-06-04T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:26:00","slug":"87919-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=87919","title":{"rendered":"Give the Chinese students their history back!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Help mark the 31<\/span>st<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Tiananmen massacre<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>. In 1989,\u00a0Chinese students occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing for months in an attempt to press the Chinese government to take steps towards democracy and to fight against corruption. But on the 4<\/span>th<\/sup>\u00a0June, 1989, the regime\u00a0sent in the army against the unarmed students.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>
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Give the Chinese their story back.<\/strong>\u00a0It is forbidden to mention the story in China, but all the students\u2019 newspaper articles, fliers etc. have been collected by the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>democracy movement<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/span>These<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>collections<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Chinese and English documents<\/strong>\u00a0have now been put on the Internet where they can be<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>downloaded<\/span>\u00a0for free.<\/span><\/span><\/a>

Many of the young dissidents were imprisoned in the wake of the crackdown.<\/strong>\u00a0Some are still in jail but they are no longer young. China still practices massive censorship of information\u00a0abour the massacre. And it is impossible for Chinese people to obtain uncensored information about the event.<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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In China the encroachments continue.<\/strong>\u00a0The year Nobel winner<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Liu Xiaobo<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0died after having been\u00a0<\/span><\/span>imprisonned several times in China<\/span><\/span>, and artists like Ai Weiwei and Badiucao are exiled from China.<\/span>\u00a0But these prominent artists are only the tip of the iceberg, there are thousands of artists, environmental activists and others imprisoned. And all they have done is defend their most basic human rights.<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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Thousands of Chinese students<\/strong>\u00a0are today studying at universities and other institutions of education in the West. Most of them do not even know their own history due to the censorship. You can help remedy this.<\/span>

Therefore we invite all pro-democracy institutions, scholars and working colleagues to download and print<\/strong>\u00a0out this documentation or put it on a USB flash drive. Place it on the shelves of libraries and hand it out as a gift to Chinese students on the\u00a04th<\/sup>\u00a0June, the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre.<\/span>

This way we can make a contribution to preserve the memory of the victims,<\/strong>\u00a0and maybe inspire a new generation of Chinese to see democracy as a possibility\u00a0in China.<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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We call on everybody to support this initiative and to mail this appeal<\/strong>\u00a0to other institutions of education where there are Chinese students, or others who might be interested in preserving and distributing knowledge about the Tiananmen massacre.<\/span>
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The initiative of this appeal<\/strong>\u00a0and information campaign is a co-operation between the democracy movement in Hong Kong and Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>
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Dear Cai Chu<\/strong><\/span><\/div>
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I send this mail in memory of the massacre\u00a0in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.\u00a0<\/strong>It is forbidden to mention the massacre in China, and each year fewer yet know what really happened.\u00a0But all media articles, fliers etc. on ths subject have been collected by the\u00a0<\/span>democracy movement<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Hong Kong, and can be\u00a0<\/span>downloaded for free here.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0I send you this mail and all the documents, so that you can help in\u00a0giving the Chinese their story back.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>
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In\u00a0memory of the 31<\/strong><\/span><\/span>st<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0anniversary of the massacre<\/strong>, I enclose this appeal, and hope that you will pass it on to your Chinese friends, institutions, and others who might benefit from remembering this landmark event.<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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In\u00a01997, I\u00a0erected an 8 meter\u00a0tall\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>monument<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Hong Kong in memorial of the massacre<\/strong>. This monument is so far still the only memorial about the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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Placing this sculpture in Hong Kong cost me a permanent expulsion\u00a0from China\u00a0<\/strong>and two\u00a0<\/span>expulsions<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from Hong Kong. I think it’s important that artists, cultural groups, and others defend human rights, and that we use our fr<\/span><\/span>eedom of speech to tell the story of the massacre. I hope that you will help in doing this.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>
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31 years after the massacre history seems to be tragically repeating itself.<\/strong>\u00a0Now with Hong Kong as the epicenter for youth demanding their basic Human Rights and the Chinese Government forcefully fighting down the youth. China latest move to passe landmark legislation to force national security laws in Hong Kong, effectively crushing the city’s autonomy, the situation is further excalating.<\/span><\/div>
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I have in February 2020 erected \u2018A Pillar of Shame\u2019 sculpture in front of the Danish parliament<\/strong>, as a protest against that China is once again using extreme force against youth people demonstrating for their democracy rights, this time in Hong Kong.<\/span><\/div>
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The China’s National People’s Congress are now directly interfering with the justice system and the freedom of speech in Hong Kong,<\/strong>\u00a0which is an unprecedented violation of the agreement between England and China for the handover of Hong Kong. This is yet another move that shows that China is preparing to fundamentally change the status of Hong Kong so basic Human and Democracy rights will no longer be respected.<\/span><\/div>
I hereby encourage everyone to protest against China\u2019s assault on Hong Kong citizens.<\/strong> <\/span><\/pre>
In Denmark there will be a ceremony in front of the parliament<\/strong>\u00a0to bring attention to both the 31st<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre and China\u2019s current assault on Hong Kong.<\/span><\/div><\/div>
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Let us remeber the youth that lost their life at\u00a0Tiananmen Square\u00a0<\/span>and let us support the youth in Hong Kong, so we will not see the same tragic outcome once again. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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<\/strong><\/span>Kind regards,<\/strong><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Jens Galschi\u00f8t<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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