
On June 3, 1989, the Chinese government sent tanks, armoured vehicles, soldiers and armed police to clear Tiananmen Square, which is among the world's largest public spaces, and its periphery off protesters and bystanders. A large number of people were killed overnight and until next evening.
Thousands had gathered from across the country in the weeks leading up to the crackdown to demand political reforms, support the protests or witness what turned out to be one of the 20th century's most significant events. The Communist Party of China has since done a lot to keep any challenge to its rule, even notional, at bay.
China has witnessed a vigorous crushing of civil liberties over the past decade. India saw the freedoms of speech and faith come under strain during a similar period. While the two countries cannot be compared on this matrix, India could heed the lessons from China.
This year, the Hong Kong police detained an artist for drawing "8964"-a reference to the date of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in the air. Others were arrested for gestures such as turning on their phone torch, associated with a vigil that is no longer allowed. The commemoration is barred in China. Under a national security law following the pro-democracy protests in 2019-20, Hong Kong is being made to resemble the mainland. Thousands, mostly youth, were arrested after that. Tiananmen Mothers, an NGO of the families of students killed that summer in Beijing, are not allowed to grieve in public.
So far, the party has termed the Mao-era Cultural Revolution (1966-76) a turbulent phase. It has not acknowledged 1989 more than a âpolitical incidentâ.
Maya Wang, interim China director at Human Rights Watch, a US-based global NGO, described the condition of civil liberties in todayâs China as âdystopianâ. âThings have gotten worse since Xi came to power in 2012,â she said. âThe deepening repression is particularly significant in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong.â
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