(4 Jun 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Beijing - 5 June 1989
1. A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Changan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square
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Washington - 4 June 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. John Moolenaar, (R) Michigan, Chairman, House Select Committee on the CCP:
“We're here because 35 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of students and workers gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Joined by millions more across China to demand democracy. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) chose to stamp them out. Crushing calls for freedom under communist tanks.”
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3. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, (D) Illinois, ranking member, House select committee on the CCP:
“Today, we have to remember that when Chairman XI Jinping says he will, quote, crack down hard on subversion and separatist activities and that he will go up, he will crack down on enemy forces, he's telling the world that the CCP will send those tanks again against anyone that stands up for freedom, and he will deem his own people enemies of the state.”
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4. Cutaway of banner reading “FREE HONG KONG” and ”REVOLUTION NOW”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Wang Dan, participant of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest:
“At this very moment, we are here to remember all the students and the citizens who lost their lives on June 4th, 1989. And I call on all the world not to forget these courageous people. I call on the entire world to pay attention to those in China today who are being persecuted for the simple act of seeking democracy and the human rights.”
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6. Pan of event participants
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emeritus:
“We as Americans must speak out for human rights in China, because if we don't because of commercial reasons, we lose all moral authority to speak out about human rights any place in the world. This is a test of our resolve.”
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STORYLINE:
Members of the U.S. Congress sent a stark reminder that the ruling Chinese Communist Party that sent in tanks against peaceful student protesters 35 years ago in the heart of Beijing is equally ruthless and suppressive today, as they commemorated the anniversary of the massive 1989 Tiananmen Movement and its bloody crackdown.
With a poster of the iconic tank man next to him, Raja Krishnamoorthi, ranking member of a House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, warned that Chinese leader Xi Jinping will resort to violence, as his predecessors did, to achieve his goals.
“We have to remember that when Chairman Xi Jinping says he will crack down hard on subversion and separatist activities, and that he will go up, he will crack down on enemy forces, he's telling the world that the (party) will send those tanks again against anyone that stands up for freedom,” said the Democrat congressman from Illinois.
AP video by Nathan Ellgren
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