OPINION - EDITORIAL
When the tanks crushed the Statue of Liberty
By Post Editorial Board
June 2, 2019 | 8:48pm
(File Photo) A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Changan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square.
Thirty years ago today, the tanks were lining up to take out the Statue of Liberty. They moved in the night of June 3 and into the 4th, crushing not just the replica that art students had built, but thousands of protesters demanding freedom for China.
This was Tiananmen Square, and also demonstrations across the People’s Republic — all smashed by the state and its ill-named People’s Liberation Army.
The protests broke out in April 1989, as students marched into Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang, a party chief deposed for turning democracy reformist.
They were demanding free speech and an open, free society. And they paid the price.
The pictures tell the tale: The tanks lining the streets, readying to roll in, soldiers marching in with rifles at the ready — then bodies strewn about, tens of thousands of people running for their lives, cars burned in the middle of the road.
The regime calls it the June Fourth Incident, to the extent the Chinese Communist Party mentions it at all. It would rather erase the day, and the movement, from history altogether.
Each year as the anniversary nears, Beijing locks up whatever former protest leaders, and families of those killed, it thinks might speak out. Suppression of the truth is the first priority. With the 30th anniversary approaching, the regime detained dozens of dissidents and activists.
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China’s Communist Party now stands for nothing but repression, and the people — for all the regime’s efforts to erase history — know it.
In countless hearts, Lady Liberty’s torch still burns. The final reckoning will come.
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