This year marks the 20th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989.
The Executive Committee, HKUSU, is recruiting members for its June 4th Working Group, details are as follow:
Duties: coordinating an awareness campaigns, comprising of forums, exhibitions and a candlelight vigil
Aims: to commemorate;
to raise awareness and stimulating an open, interactive discourse on this indispensible part of Chinese history;
to promote the underlying values that the June 4th Massacre
symbolizes – those of democracy, freedom, human rights and the rule of
law.
Should you be interested in becoming a member of the Working Group or have any enquiries,
please do not hesitate to contact Mr Martin Kok, Vice-President (External), HKUSU at
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Thank you for your kind attention. We look forward to you participation.
In the spring of 1989, students and workers joined in a peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square, Beijing following the death of reformer Hu Yaobang, to press for economic and political reforms. The seven-week occupation of the Square ended with a bloody, military crackdown by the Central People's Government on 4 June 1989. Those who openly sympathised with the protestors came under arrest or severe political pressures; and till this day, public commemoration remain largely banned in the Mainland, with mass media and information censorships still in place.
The Pillar of Shame stands now on our campus as a vivid, painful narrative of the lives, dreams and passions lost during the Massacre. It is testament to the disgraceful fact that twenty years on, the Central People's Government has still yet to pay due regard to this part of history which has aroused not only immense controversies, but also severe international scrutiny.
We strongly urge that the democratic movements of 1989 be vindicated, and a fair verdict be delivered to the victims and their families. We believe that this is the first and foremost step to the democratisation of the People's Republic of China and the improvement of the human rights situations in the Mainland.
如欲瀏覽更多六四天安門屠城的相關資訊，可參考以下連結：
For further information relating to the June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre, please feel free to refer to the following resources online:
一九八九年六月三日晚上於天安門廣場的錄影 Video clips from the night of 3 June 1989
<http://www.metacafe.com/watch/682560/tiananmen_square_massacre/>
英國廣播公司新聞報導 BBC news coverage
<http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-XJBnHMpHGRY/bbc_news_june_4_1989_tiananmen_square_massacre/>
劉曉波《Remembering June 4th for China's Future》 Liu Xiaobo, 'Remembering June 4th for China's Future'
<http://www.hrichina.org/public/PDFs/CRF.4.2005/CRF-2005-4_June4.pdf>
《天安門》電影 'The Gate of Heavenly Peace - The Film
<http://tsquare.tv/>
