4 June 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Sqaure Massacre [Shameful] "Reward"

I must admit that my dad had an eye for such things. Some years ago in China, he discovered such a watch in a street market.

 

The writing under the green soldier reads:

 

Souvenir for [19]89 June "Suppression" to "Riot"

 

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For those who are too young to live through that early June in 1989, tens of thousands of students and ordinary citizens went to Beijing's Tiananmen Square in a week-long peaceful protest demanding political reforms and more demoracy and transparency in government affairs, and a crackdown on corruption.

 

On June 4, 1989, the Communist government sent in the heavily-armed tanks and fired on the protesters. It's not known how many were killed, estimates range from 4,000 to 20,000 deaths -- all were unarmed, peaceful citizens, many of them were university students.

 

Apparently, these watches were given to the People's Liberation Army as a reward for "successfully suppressing" the June 4 1989 Tiananmen Square democratic "riot."

 

Till today, the June 4 Massacre was completely denied in official Chinese media, and indeed many younger people are unware or simply too ingnorant to even know about it. If you do an on-line search on the numbers 4, 6, 89, and 1989 in China, you'll find nothing about the deadly massacre of peaceful citizens by their own "People's Government."

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

 

 

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