Tiananmen Square, 20th anniversary
A little late, but here, reposted from wesa:



I remember watching these scenes on tv, on the black-and-white set in the kitchen. I can hardly grasp the idea that twentysomethings and younger in China barely even know this happened.

I still wonder what became of the person who stood in front of the tank column holding the shopping bags. I expect that he or she is dead, many government agents and staffpersons having been assigned to determine the person's identity and capture him or her by any means necessary. The 2008 Olympics showed us that any claims China might make about citizens' freedoms and rights are still a cruel joke. But maybe the person is alive somewhere. And that hurts even more, because he or she can never, ever speak to anyone, save possibly for very close family members, about that event, for fear of being taken into custody, and tortured, and killed.