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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 03:46 PM
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Lone Man Stages Brief Demonstration in Tiananmen
Edited on Thu Jun-03-04 04:32 PM by dArKeR
BEIJING (Reuters) - A lone man staged a short-lived demonstration on Tiananmen Square Thursday night, the eve of the 15th anniversary of China's bloody military crackdown on democracy protests, a witness said.

The man, about 50 years old, kneeled briefly to pray at the foot of the Monument to the Peoples' Heroes at the center of the square, where tens of thousands of students gathered from April to June 1989 to press demands for democratic reform.

He was swiftly taken away by police, according to a Reuters photographer who witnessed the scene. Police in plain clothes and in uniform routinely comb the square on sensitive anniversaries, snuffing out protests as quickly as they start.

The man's identity and cause could not immediately be determined. There were no further details.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed on the night of June 3-4, 1989 when People's Liberation Army soldiers backed by tanks shot their way through intersections blocked by Beijing residents and wrested control of the square.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040603/wl_nm/china_tiananmen_protest_dc_1

Could it have been Jackie 'Whore' Chan who arrested this man?

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Jackie 'Whore' Chan is a Communist Puppet!
Senior DPP figure gets in a tangle over Jackie Chan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/04/23/2003137723


Jackie Chan Rips Taiwan's Election

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan (news) said Sunday that Taiwan's recent presidential election was "the biggest joke in the world."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040329/ap_en_mo/people_j ...

I'm putting the WORLD on notice. This is how Fascism, Communism, Brutal Regimes, Nazis, Hitlers rise. The use of immoral instruments masquerading as moral/just people. Chan, speaking from Communist China and bashing Democracy! This is as laughable as Trent Lott saying aWol got more votes. Jackie 'Whore' didn't mention that there are no elections in China but its obviously the most corrupt and murderous regime on the planet. Where government officials falsely convict citizens, execute them and sell their body parts for cash.

Honk Kong has no ability to vote for its leader either. And the Communists are trying daily to take away ALL rights of Hong Kong citizens.

I was in Hong Kong when the first Chinese astronaut went on tour in Hong Kong. Who was there as the Communist mouth piece? Jackie 'Whore'. Not only did I read in the Hong Kong newspapers, I spoke to many Hong Kong citizens questioning why Jackie 'Whore' was playing the puppet for the Communists. So many people felt this way, Jackie 'Whore' went on a TV 'attack dog tour' (like Condi Lice is doing now), to try to salvage his reputation. He just kept saying, 'We are all Chinese that's why I do it.'

Everyone I spoke to, and also saw personally on HK TV interviews of people standing in line, (The space capsule was put on display at the Space Center next to Kowloon Star Ferry), the Hong Kong people said, 'I don't care about seeing Yang Liwei, astronaunt, I only want to see the space capsule.'

Most all HK people were really pissed at Jackie 'Whore' for his actions. Many said he's a traitor.


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You've got to look at this honestly people! Everyone stop and look what's go-in down! There isn't an official/knowledgable person in the world who'd say Taiwan's election procedures aren't the fairest in the world.

The people protesting, in Taiwan, are all the Fascists Mainland Chinese who invaded Taiwan in 1949. They are about the most corrupt group on Earth, have been stealing money from Taiwan since 1949 but now no longer have an easy method to steal.

The KMT Party is the richest political party in the world. How did they get this money?

Assassination attempt. Is Jackie 'Whore' willing to take a bullet in the stomach while riding in a Jeep? The investigation is on going but Jackie 'Whore' knows what happened?

You can read just about anywhere the near certainty of ALL Hong Kong media stars being part of the Hong Kong Mafia. Which I would assume has now been taken over by the Communist Chinese Government.

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ps. I'll never watch a Jackie 'Whore' movie again!


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Updated http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com with Tiananmen pics!
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 03:51 PM
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1. Calls for independent probe of Tiananmen massacre as China quashes debate
EIJING (AFP) - Human rights groups called for an independent inquiry on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, with all debate on the issue in China quashed, dissidents under house arrest and phone lines cut.

Amnesty International led the charge in a strongly worded statement demanding those responsible for the deaths of hundreds, some say more than a thousand, must be held responsible.

"Those found responsible should be tried and brought to justice," the London-based group said.

Amnesty "calls on the government to release all those who are still held in connection with the Tiananmen crackdown and who never received fair trials," it added.

The group has records of more than 50 people it believes remain imprisoned in China for their part in the protests, a number which is thought to be "a fraction of the true figure" and one never released by the authorities, the statement said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/china_tiananmen_june4

I know, the Communist can organize and independent inquiry with members;
1. Jackie 'Whore' Chan
2. Neil 'Whore' Bush
3. Mikie 'Whore' Chinoy

we all can trust them!
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 04:05 PM
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2. Chinese intellectuals urge Beijing to apologize for Tiananmen massacre
BEIJING (AFP) - Sixty-seven Chinese intellectuals, some of them in exile, Thursday urged the authorities to apologize for the Tiananmen massacre just days before the 15th anniversary of the traumatic event.

"We demand that those responsible ... openly ask for forgiveness of the people in written and oral statements, and bow their heads three times to the dead," they said in an open letter, seen by AFP.

"Our demand for truth is not an exercise in revenge, rather we earnestly desire reconciliation, and through that process of reconciliation, to advance democracy," they said.

Hundreds, perhaps as many as a thousand, died in the streets around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, when the government decided to send tanks and troops against pro-democracy protesters there.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/china_rights_tiananmen
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lanparty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 05:32 PM
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3. Is this where Bush ...

... got his anti-protester tactics??? Was this Chinese man swept off to a "free-speach zone"?????

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Piperay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 03:54 AM
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7. I'm sure chimp studies
the tactics, taking care of protesters the chinese way would be chimp's dream come true. :mad:
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 11:11 PM
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4. Tiananmen film targets young cadres
REUTERS , BEIJING
Friday, Jun 04, 2004,Page 1

China has ordered officials to watch a new documentary on the Tiananmen Square demonstrations to persuade younger cadres that the 1989 army crackdown could not be avoided, government sources said yesterday.

The four-hour documentary has been shown to people holding ranks of ministry department director or higher since March in order to change the minds of a new generation of government officials who may disagree with the government line on the massacre.

"Young cadres need to watch it because many think the crackdown was unnecessary," said one government source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/06/04/2003173628
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 11:18 PM
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5. Tiananmen was not a defeat, but a victory
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK
Friday, Jun 04, 2004,Page 9

It will be 15 years ago today that I stood at the northeast corner of Tiananmen Square and watched China go mad.

The Communist Party was answering the demands of millions of protesters who had made Tiananmen Square the focus of their seven-week democracy movement. The protesters included students, Communist Party members, peasants, diplomats, laborers -- even thieves, who signed a pledge to halt their "work" during the demonstrations.

I was in my Beijing apartment when I heard that troops had opened fire and were trying to force their way to Tiananmen. So I raced to the scene on my bicycle, dodging tank traps that protesters had erected.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/06/04/2003173682
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 11:29 PM
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6. 15 Years Since Tiananmen Bloodshed - CBS
Fifteen years after the bloodshed at Tiananmen Square, exiled student leaders of China's 1989 pro-democracy protests are settled abroad as academics and entrepreneurs. But they nurture one wish above all - to come home to a new system.

"Living in exile, we have to keep our faith that there will be democracy some day," said Wu'er Kaixi, who gained fame as a pajama-clad hunger-striker who harangued then-Premier Li Peng and now is a political commentator in Taiwan.

Though the protest leaders have built new lives and Chinese society has changed drastically since 1989, communist leaders are still intensely sensitive about the protests that drew thousands to vast Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing to demand a more open system and an end to corruption.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/03/world/main620978.shtml
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 11:02 AM
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8. Police prowl square as muzzled survivors mark Tiananmen massacre quietly
BEIJING (AFP) - Police swamped China's Tiananmen Square, keeping dissent at bay on the 15th anniversary of a bloody pro-democracy crackdown as survivors and relatives privately mourned the hundreds who died.

With the event highly sensitive to the ruling Communist Party, few, if any, commemorations were taking place to mark the day when hundreds, perhaps thousands, of protestors were killed by Chinese troops.

Police vans criss-crossed the vast square in central Beijing constantly Friday, while on majestic Chang'an Avenue -- the main route used by tanks and soldiers in 1989 -- uniformed People's Armed Police and undercover teams were out in force.

All traces of the bullet holes and tank tracks that scarred the area have long since been erased.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/china_tiananmen_june4

Where is Jackie Chan's statement that 'The world will remember Tiananmen for a 1000 years.'
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 11:32 PM
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9. China can't fool everyone: Wang Dan
CNA , WASHINGTON
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004,Page 3

Prominent Tiananmen student leader Wang Dan (??) brushed off on Thursday an accusation by Beijing that he is a "Taiwan spy" as an old tactic which he "had long become used to" and which was not worthy of a response.

Wang said that from the first day he took part in pro-democracy activities in China, the Beijing regime had used insults and defamatory language in an attempt to discredit him.

So the latest accusation of spying for Taiwan came as no surprise.

Wang said he was not interested in wasting time answering the accusation. Instead, he quoted former US president Abraham Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/05/2003173811

What's the difference between Mainland Communists and Mainland American GOP Media Communists?
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-04 11:35 PM
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10. Exiled activists long for change at home
AP , WASHINGTON
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004,Page 3


Fifteen years ago, Tong Yi (??) watched in terror as tanks rolled toward Tiananmen Square and soldiers gunned down two students who were just a few meters from her.

On Thursday, she joined other exiled leaders of the student protest in calling for the US and other Western nations to pressure the Chinese government on human rights violations and democracy.

"We believed we were patriots," Tong, now a New York lawyer, said at a news conference. "We never anticipated they would roll over us in tanks."

They are older now, working as accountants, lawyers, journalists and Internet executives. But as the former student leaders gathered to mark the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre that left hundreds or even thousands dead, they pledged to reorganize and force change in their homeland.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/05/2003173812
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