...the Gates of Heavenly Peace became the doorway to hellish chaos.



And our LKY said in 2004, "If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it."

I am not here to tell you whether the Chinese government was right in their action or not; only you can decide that for yourself. This post is just my annual ritual to remember the lives lost during that horrible period which formed one of the many way points in the awakening of my political consciousness. I still remember the horror many felt in Singapore when news, pictures and broadcasts from the scene reached us here so many miles south. It's been twenty years since, and the PRC government has successfully buried it under the cobblestones of Tiananmen with economic progress, money, comfort, consumerism, etc.

While the young of China may not give two hoots about it, I for one do not want to forget.

• The Huffington Post - Tiananmen Square Remembered, An Eye-Witness Account
  
• The Telegraph - China's young leave Tiananmen in the past
  
• Wikipedia - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

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