Tiananmen Histórias

Here is what I wrote in 2009 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Anarchy. A swirl of topics: emotions, allusions to history, social issues... And somewhere in the maelstrom comes forth rhymes and prose. Note: If you can't be bothered to read all the poems (quite understandably), I've starred the better ones.

During April 15th and June 4th in 1989, in Tiananmen Square, millions of people were protesting to have freedom, justice and equality. But on June 4th, the Chinese Army repressed violently the movement. But what would have happened if this protests succeded? What if the protests would have turned into a revolution defending freedom speech? Here we'll see that hypothetical case.

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"There really is no tradeoff needed between civil liberty and human dignity, and being fed," Shen Tong says. know more on this : https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/a-student-leader-remembers-tiananmen-collective-memories-cant-be-killed/372134/