China clamps down for anniversary of Tiananmen atrocity

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AFP , BEIJING
Saturday, May 29, 2004,Page 1

China's secretive state security police have set up a special task force to clamp down on students and political dissidents in the run-up to the 15th anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre, sources said yesterday.

"The universities are under strict control and there are several kinds of restrictions and regulations dealing with the anniver-sary," a Beijing academic said.

"For the universities, there is a special organ run by the State Security Ministry. They are responsible for a wide range of monitoring in the university district," said the academic, who has been warned not to speak with foreign media.

The 1989 massacre in the streets of Beijing killed hundreds, some say more than a thousand, unarmed students and citizens and has remained a highly sensitive topic, with students on the capital's campuses strongly discouraged from discussing the issue, he said.

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Who will be the guest speaking at Tiananmen Square at this years ceremony? Jackie 'Whore' Chan, Mikie 'Whore' Chinoy, or ' Neil 'Whore' Bush?

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1. Good Lord

And our companies keep sending jobs there.

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2. Activist challenges China's `lies' - TT

AFP , BEIJING
Sunday, May 30, 2004,Page 5


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A top Chinese political activist held under strict house arrest ahead of the Tiananmen Square massacre's 15th anniversary has urged the public to challenge the government's "lies and fraud" over the June 4 crackdown.

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ding Zilin, 67, leader of the Tiananmen Mothers group, said in an unusually bold statement that Chinese people should dispute the Communist Party's view that the crackdown was needed to maintain stability and usher in a period of strong economic growth.

"We must now in equally clear and unequivocal terms tell these leaders: The massacre that took place in the Chinese capital in 1989 was a crime against the people, and a crime against humanity," Ding said on the website of the New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC).

"This massacre not only seriously violated the Constitution of this country and the international obligations of a sovereign state, but also transformed a habitual disdain for human and civil rights into an unprecedented act of violence against humanity," she said.

Hundreds of people, perhaps more than a thousand, were mowed down in the streets of Beijing as the army used tanks and machine guns to end six weeks of student protests centered on Tiananmen square in the heart of the capital.

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Jackie 'Whore's' Puppet Masters are murderers, thus the puppet is a murder.

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3. Tiananmen Mothers maintain their rage

REUTERS , BEIJING
Thursday, Jun 03, 2004,Page 6

Fifteen years after troops backed by tanks crushed China's democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, some survivors and families of the dead are still seeking redress.

For Ding Zilin (???), a 67-year-old retired professor, the anniversary of her teenage son's death is another reason to press China's new generation of leaders to reverse the official verdict on the protests and come clean about those who disappeared.

"Today, as we face those names so familiar to us, our hearts continue to tremble and bleed," she wrote on behalf of the Tiananmen Mothers advocacy group in a letter sent to reporters in Beijing. "We should remember that the system we live in is full of barbarism, inhumanity and hypocrisy.

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