Yesterday was 六四 (liu if, six four) in reference to June 4 that is what they call the Chinese that the West is known as the Tiananmen slaughter.
Two decades have passed since the Communist Party in a brutal go unnoticed most pro-democracy protest in the history of China.
But in this Asian nation, the anniversary of the events that shocked the country and the rest of the world, became, almost, almost, almost unnoticed but, since Then, more pain than glory.
The only place on Chinese territory where the victim was commemorated in Hong Kong, where a massive vigil, attended by 150,000 people, organizers say and nearly 63,000 according to police flooded the city with lighted candles for the souls of those who died that day.
The rest, mostly in the capital, was quiet, tension and police presence.
The square was taken by police, plainclothes secret agent, police vans and unmarked cars.
Over 30,000 agents already employed daily in censoring Internet content they consider to be inappropriate, the previous day toiled in an attempt to prevent any public commemoration of the anniversary. As a result, appeared on Chinese territory blocked social networking sites, photo sharing and messaging, Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr.
For some news reports from international chains, like the BBC, the television screens were cast in black, for almost 3 minutes, time that lasted a report on the events of that dark day June 89.
Two decades after the slaughter the government wants to pretend that nothing happened at Tiananmen, and so even the textbooks mention the incident, which the official line was a legitimate action to end the conspiracy of a group of counterrevolutionaries.
At this point in history, the leaders say that the decades of growth and prosperity would not have been such if it had allowed the situation of social chaos reigned in the city, they said, had run riot, instead of imposing the order of the harmonious society, even if they did, as did, to hit a tank and gun.
But the foundations of the game have changed now, and with millions out of poverty, exorbitant growth in recent years, money in the coffers and an emerging class social media, the government tries to convince the public that are thriving economically while this issue and many others are not important.
The concept has to be something like "Now you have money, you have welfare, you have a car, a house, you can go on vacations, designer clothes and you can eat at home ... do not worry about policy that is not important ... that and we take care that you only you can bring problems "
But not everyone is willing to forget that dare to speak up, headed by the group called "Mothers of Tiananmen", are asking the government to change its and to publish official casualty figures, which recognizes students and to release about 30 prisoners who remain incarcerated since then.
However, in contrast to the line of official silence is Zhao Ziyang. The former party secretary general in 1989, was the only one who refused to impose martial law, costing him the job at the time and suffered house arrest since then until his death in 2005. A few weeks ago his memoirs were published posthumously and his book has decided to give its latest issue, but has to come from the grave.
But it seems that the heavy machinery of government is not willing to back down. It seems that the incident to try to dissolve over time.
As always, we want and hope that China will one day reach the goal towards which little by little and is directing his steps, we hope, or I at least I hope, that day comes, the government and society of this country are mature enough and have traveled the road needed to be able to rewrite his own history and recognize the truth about what happened.
Then, if the day comes, a statue of the Goddess of Democracy erected in Tia An Men, recalling the then built with paper mache 89 idealistic students. That same tanks razed a June 4, destroying their lives and dreams in Tian An Men will ensure the memory of those who killed by his government for their aspirations for democracy.
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