When we were in Beijing, Em asked our tour guide what happened in Tiananmen Square. She gave some ill-informed answer about the protesters not liking Deng Xiaoping’s successor. I say “ill-informed” because I believe maybe, just maybe, she didn’t know the whole truth. How she uses that to justify people being run over by tanks and massacred I do not know, but we didn’t want to push it.
Interestingly, the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests on 4 June, less than one month after we got back from Beijing. As usual, the Chinese government has been busy doing what they do best – censorship – and making sure the Square stays ignorantly and deceptively peaceful. I chanced upon this photo gallery of the protest by the Los Angeles Times.
