Protestors to Mark the 23rd Anniversary of the
Tiananmen Massacre
On
Monday the 4th of June, 8pm-10pm, around one hundred protesters gathered
outside the Chinese Embassy in London to hold a candlelight vigil commemorating
victims of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989.
Protestors
read out the names of known victims of the massacre, and mark their names on a
street map of Beijing showing the places where most of these victims were killed
or the hospitals to which their bodies were taken. The commemoration
highlighted the fact that there are still people who remain in prison for
participating in the 1989 protests.
The
commemoration also mourned the recent death of Ya Weilin, a key member of the
Tiananmen Mothers who committed suicide on 25 May at the age of 73. Mr Ya’s
younger son was shot in the head by martial law troops in Beijing in the
evening of 3 June 1989 and later died in the hospital. Tiananmen Mothers’
obituary states that Mr Ya ‘was in despair after enduring more than 20 years of
grief without any redress and had decided to protest with his own death’.
On
the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, we repeated our demands: the
truth of the massacre, the prosecution of those responsible, an end to the
autocratic rule of the Chinese Communist Party, the guarantee of human rights,
and the democratisation of China!
Time:
8pm – 10pm
Location:
Opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-51 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL. Stations:
Regent's Park, Great Portland Street or Oxford Circus.
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