… since that day, in my own way, I have always remembered those brave people who stood up to be counted. Those who were wounded or were killed and, of course, those who subsequently disappeared or have paid in some way for their part in calling for freedom and human rights.
This year I thought it fitting to include some shots from the family album taken since that fateful day.
And as a reminder, an old news clip, now grainy. “Tell the World, ” they said.
And a recommendation. Read Ma Jian’s “Beijing Coma”. Ma Jian is no longer allowed in his home country.
singlemaltmonkey 
*runs off to educate herself*
A formative moment in a people’s struggle. What happened is truly shocking in the modern world.
(If you can get your hands on the book, Mun, it is a gripping fictionalised account of what happened.)
Will search for it in local bookshops….couldn’t find an e-pub version online…but I read the Wiki on Tiananmen Square…can’t believe I never knew about it. Your post chimes with what I’m reading nowadays though…Arundhati Roy’s ‘An Ordinary Person’s Guide To Empire’…making my blood boil it does.
Quite. Whilst I’ve not read the book, there are some of us who think that “the empire” was not something it is cracked up to be.