Thousands protest China's authoritarianism in HK

[dArKeR]

AP , HONG KONG
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004,Page 1


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Angered by China's hard line against democracy in Hong Kong, an estimated 60,000 people waved candles, sang and chanted yesterday night to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.

"Hong Kong should be democratic," university student Rocker Tsui said at an annual vigil that was highly charged by the recent bitter dispute over the territory's political future. "Hong Kong people should be ruling Hong Kong ourselves."

"The people's republic should be for the people, not for killing the people," said a woman who identified herself only by the surname Pau at yesterday night's rally in a sprawling downtown park. A monument was set up that said: "Democracy's heroes stand forever."

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Look what the Communists, Neil Bush, and Jackie Chan stand for:
http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[Dirk39]

1. "Democracy's heroes stand forever."

Let's suppose, the chinese government would have given in to the people, who marched there in Beijing.
Not to even mention, what our media and our governments would report, if some radicals, who only represent a "mislead small minority", would do in Washington or in Berlin or in Madrid, what those protestors did in Beijing.

O.K. the western governments would not have killed so many people, maybe just one like in Genua and some hundreds more would have been tortured like in Genua.
But if the government in Beijing would have given in to those protestors: do you think, China would have become a democratic society with a welfare state?
Or do you rather believe, China would have become an ultrabrutal capitalism without any kind of democracy just like Russia?

The Gorbatchevs are just right for the title of our capitalistic newspapers, the reality takes place in the ghettos, they never show.
Don't get me wrong, but the empathy of the western media whores for those protesters and fighters for democrazy in China simply makes me angry. If only they would fight for democrazy and social-justice in OUR societies. None of them would be killed, maybe just one or two.

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[madrchsod]

2. you forgot walmart and everyone else that

buys it`s goods from china. each day there seems to be more examples of how and why china is pulling the strings of the united states government..thanks for keeping the members of the du informed on the "otherside" of the world

[dArKeR]

3. Franken's show brought this home! Why has it taken so long, a decade,

to have an honest/research voice on the radio?

I think they, the GOP Crime Family, will assassinate Franken. He's too dangerous to them. Franken could put them all in prison and at the very least out of power.

[Dirk39]

4. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003

by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PRC404A.html

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[dArKeR]

5. HK pro-democracy activists claim fresh momentum

AP , Hong Kong
Sunday, Jun 06, 2004,Page 5

Pro-democracy figures claimed fresh momentum yesterday after tens of thousands of people rallied on the 15th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, but Beijing's local allies denounced the protest as a ploy to seek independence.

"People are geared up to speak out," opposition lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan said Saturday.

Hong Kong people hold a candlelight vigil every year to commemorate China's military crackdown on unarmed students rallying for democracy in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, and this year's event was highly charged after China recently ruled out full democracy in the near term for Hong Kong.

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