Tiananmen Square Massacre

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(1989)The Tiananmen massacre was the result of a manifestation and protest series carried out by thousand of students, intellectuals and workers in the Popular Republic of China. The revolution was sparked by the death of Hu Yaobang, an anti-corruption and pro-democracy retired official and it was directed to the government´s repression and corruption as well as to the excessive economic reforms that were causing high rates of inflation and unemployment. The protest was suppressed by force trough the using of hundreds of tanks and army infantry that left as a result 400-800 civil deaths and 7000-10000 of wounded people.

I consider this event as a huge attempt to human rights. Thousand of people died just because they were expressing their feelings of unfairness and wanted to acquire better live conditions. I really believe that the Communist Party of China did not act in the best appropriate way; this brutal suppression of demonstrators was not the manner of controlling or stopping those manifestations and it just constitutes a matter of embarrassment. This horrible massacre could not be a fact to feel proud about and a demonstration of this is that thousand of Chinese people does not even know about what really happen that 4 of June of 1989 because of the big repression and strict constraints that the Chinese government has over all the media and academic material. The Chinese mandatary order not to talk about this event and even today it is considered a politic taboo that shows itself as inappropriate and risky.

In this order of ideas, it is also important to mention the agreement made in 2006 between the Chinese government and the internet searcher Google (Google.cn). The result of the negotiation was the censoring internet and local restrictions imposed to the production, development and dissemination of “improper” or “harmful” information (this includes material concerning the Tiananmen Massacre, The Falun Gong spiritual movement and the Tibetan independentism).