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Silence in the Square: 36 Years After Tiananmen

June 4, 2025 By admin Leave a Comment

Wednesday marks thirty-six years since the tanks rolled through Beijing and the night sky of June 3rd to 4th, 1989 was filled with gunfire aimed not at foreign enemies but at China’s own youth—students, workers, and ordinary citizens who had gathered in Tiananmen Square to call for reform, freedom, and an end to corruption. The massacre, an indelible scar in modern Chinese history, stands as one of the most brutal peacetime crackdowns on civilian demonstrators in the 20th century. While exact numbers remain shrouded in secrecy, rights organizations and those who witnessed the chaos estimate that hundreds, possibly thousands, died when the People’s Liberation Army was ordered to clear the square.

The Chinese government has never released a complete or official death toll, nor has it taken responsibility for the violence. Instead, an orchestrated silence envelopes the events of that spring. On the mainland, discussion of Tiananmen is heavily censored—scrubbed from school textbooks, filtered out from the internet, and absent from public discourse. Even the iconic image of the “Tank Man”—a lone figure standing in defiance before a column of armored vehicles—has been all but erased from memory inside China, though it remains one of the most recognized symbols of individual resistance globally.

Today, there will be no official ceremonies, no speeches, no lowering of flags. In Hong Kong, once a bastion of annual commemorations, candlelight vigils have been banned, and activists silenced under the sweeping powers of the national security law. Across the straits in Taiwan, and in diaspora communities from Vancouver to Sydney, remembrance lives on—in vigils, in testimonies, and in the fading memories of those who were there. For them, Tiananmen is not only a tragedy of the past but a warning about the present and future, especially as China’s government grows more authoritarian and less tolerant of dissent.

The anniversary is a reminder not just of what happened, but of what has been buried. In the heart of Beijing, where tourists snap photos and students hurry between subway stops, Tiananmen Square stands vast and empty—watched not only by stone lions and security cameras, but by the weight of a history that the state refuses to acknowledge. The silence, 36 years on, is deafening.

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