EDITOR'S NOTE - Wednesday, June 4, marked the anniversary of the Communist Party of China’s military crackdown on mostly student protestors at Tiananmen Square. Midlander Bob Fu, founder and president of China Aid, was at the protests.
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| Pastor Bob Fu (right) testifying before the U.S. Congress |
Special Contributor to the Midland Reporter-Telegram
MIDLAND, TEXAS - Twenty-five years ago, as an ambitious young man along with millions of fellow students and Chinese citizens, I marched in the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. What we appealed was a freer and more democratic China with an accountable government. After almost two months of a “Beijing Spring,” the bloody crackdown was ordered by the hardliners of the Communist Party of China. The Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989 brutally took the lives of innocent students and other Chinese citizens and exposed the marked deterioration of basic human rights and freedoms in China to the world. As China searches for its identity in the 21st century and responds to economic growth, the Chinese government must simultaneously address political reforms and expand social freedom. As a critical step toward this goal, the Chinese government must acknowledge and rectify the injustices that transpired in the June 4 massacre and seek to address and deter all acts of violence and persecution, past, present and future, against its citizens.
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