China’s Long March to Freedom
The Chinese Communist Party will try to eliminate all mention of what happened at Tiananmen Square 25 years ago for fear of triggering renewed calls for human rights and democracy. But, though the anniversary will pass without official acknowledgment, the protesters’ demands have not gone away, and they cannot be suppressed forever.
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NEW YORK – Twenty-five years ago, on June 4, 1989, China’s movement for democracy and human rights was crushed by security forces in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. At a time when democratic change was sweeping the world, some saw the bloody crackdown as only a temporary setback in the battle for human freedom; others viewed it as the end of the democratic road. A quarter-century on, neither scenario has been entirely realized; hope for change remains alive.