Location: Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Square)
Time: 7 a.m. Beijing time
Date: June 4
1989 Under the tracks of hundreds of tanks and in the crosshairs of more than ten thousand soldiers, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were waiting for death in Heavenly Square Square. The seekers of political reform and supporters of democracy in Tiananmen Square did not know that a tragic end awaited them in the early hours of Sunday, the fifth day of student demonstrations. And the workers and youth against the corruption of the Communist Party and its followers in all parts of #China. Those five days were the only democracy in the modern history of China. Breaking the silence and the flame of the intellectual vacuum produced by the Communist oppression occurred due to the effect of the volcano of anger that was sparked by hunger, poverty, and the erosion of public and personal rights. So that June 4th remains a witness to a regime’s crime against its own people, and indeed against all of humanity, in full view of the entire world. The scene of June 4 remains present, with the mausoleum of Mao Zedong in the background and crowds of demonstrators confronting tank squadrons with sticks and stones. The iconic “Tank Man” scene has not disappeared from the memory of anti-violence activists and human rights activists around the world. News agencies, newspapers, and human rights movements around the world have been searching for it. With two bags and with the courage of a hero, Tank Man faced its advance, evading and maneuvering to express that something that no longer exists is fear. It is impossible to rule out the similarity between the scene of the tank man in Beijing and the scene of an Egyptian young man standing in the face of a central security armored vehicle on the morning of Tuesday, January 25, 2011 in Egypt. The armored vehicle was on its way to disperse crowds of demonstrators before this unknown person decided to face his fear by not being afraid. The young man stands in A scene that only happens in Hollywood movies about courage and truth. He faced the water sprinkler with his chest, crossing his hand around his waist as if to say what next. The world did not know the identity of the tank man, just as the Egyptians did not know the identity of this young man, because, above all, they wanted to remain unknown, as if they were saying that they were symbols before they were personalities in themselves. The demonstrations in Tiananmen witnessed widespread participation by university students in Beijing under the supervision of their teachers and professors in a practical application that the students wanted to present as a graduation project based on the renaissance of China, the greatness of its history, its extended human civilization, and its bitter reality. The students led the change movement that did not begin by coincidence in 1989, as the waves of demonstrations began to intensify. From 1975, then it reappeared again in 1987, culminating in the success of students and youth in including workers and other groups, which made the 1989 demonstrations the largest and most dangerous for the regime and its party. Fine arts students designed a statue of democracy that they decided would be different from the Statue of Liberty. It was the statue of “The Gods of Democracy,” which He formed the second icon of the demonstrations and the demonstrators gathered around him before the tanks crushed him after they had crushed those around him. The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party reminds us of a long history of struggle that the Chinese people have waged and continue to wage in darkness and silence, where the Internet is monitored, newspapers are confiscated, and international agencies are absent, to always alert us that change is not a cakewalk and that humanity’s greatest struggles are those that have extended across generations and generations.