real and fake antifascism, RIP Chinese dissidents

[pynchonoid]

Speaking of the difference between real and fake
antifascism, RIP those Chinese democracy activists who
died making that disctinction, a decade ago:

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,969528,00.html>

The horror of a people attacked by its own army 


Jasper Becker
Monday June 5, 1989 

[...] Students had been bayoneted to death, others had
set fire to two armoured personnel carriers and
trucks, tanks had crushed to death 11 students who had
left the square and were lagging behind the others,
more students had been crushed to death in their
tents. "How could the Communist Party do this? How
could they shoot children?" asked a worker in blue
overalls. Others pleaded with us to tell the world
what happened. The West must stop all investments,
they said, and condemn their government. No one, not
even the Japanese or the Kuomintang or the warlords,
had ever done this, and this was their own government.
But many were mute with horror. Nobody could find the
words. 

"All we wanted was some democracy," said a student who
had been whipped across the face, his shoulders
shaking with anger. [...] 




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