1989 Beijing Massacre
Those who were killed by order of the Chinese government on June Fourth 1989 for believing in the spirit of Freedom
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly referred to as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between April 15 1989 and June 4 1989.
In Beijing, the military crackdown on the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The toll ranges from 200–300 (PRC government figures), to 400–800 by The New York Times, and to 2,000–3,000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross).The following list was complied by the June Fourth Victims' Network, which provides the names of those lives murdered by the government of China that night as well as providing details and testimonies to their memory. Petition letters over the incident have emerged from time to time, notably from Dr. Yiang Yanyong and the 'Tiananmen Mothers', an organization founded by a mother of one of the victims killed in 1989.
"The mothers are a small group of elderly women who have become the symbol of the event the country cannot refer to. Ding Zilin, who organised the women, is now 71. She used to teach Marxist philosophy at the People’s University in Beijing. In 1989, when Tiananmen Square was occupied by thousands of students, her 17-year-old son (Jiang Jielian), who was still at school, got caught up in the movement. On the evening of 3 June, as the atmosphere grew increasingly tense, she feared the boy might join other demonstrators in the streets and locked him in her apartment. He escaped through a bathroom window, and was killed that night, when troops marched into the centre of the city. No one knows how many died alongside him. Government repression has been so complete that the number of victims remains a mystery.
When Li Hai, a former activist from Peking University, tried to collect information about them in the early 1990s, he was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment for ‘leaking state secrets’. Despite constant police harassment and repeated house arrests, Ding persisted in her inquiry, and in 1994 published, in Hong Kong, a verifiable list of victims. Every year the list has expanded, and it now has 186 names. More and more people who lost family members have gathered around Ding. Inspired by the example of the Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina, and with help from human rights activists in Hong Kong, Ding and her friends some time ago named themselves the Tiananmen Mothers. Actually, the group also includes fathers, wives and husbands of those who were killed, as well as some of those who were injured during the repression.
Qi Zhiyong, a worker, lost a leg from a bullet wound near Tiananmen. For trying to get redress and compensation, he has repeatedly been beaten by police thugs in his home; this year he was put under precautionary arrest before 4 June, and only released when the anniversary was over. His case is typical." (Chaohua Wang , London Review of Books, 5th July 2007)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n13/wang01_.html
The following is a list of those whose lives the Chinese government sought to erase that night. They have not succeeded. "The topic is still forbidden to talk about by the Chinese government and it is common for Chinese youth to be entirely unaware of the Tiananmen protests. Currently, due to the strong Chinese government censorship including the Internet censorship, the news media
is forbidden to report anything related to this subject. That part of history disappeared in most of the Chinese media including the Internet. No one is allowed to make any web sites related to this. A search on the Internet in Mainland China largely returns no result, apart from the government-mandated version of the events and the official view, which are mostly found on Websites of People's Daily and other heavily-controlled media."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
In January 2006, Google agreed to censor their mainland China site, Google.cn, to remove information about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Their lives and what they lived for will not be erased.
Jiang Jielian
DETAILS. male, born in Beijing on June 2, 1972, had just passed his 17th birthday when he died. He was a junior at the High School attached to People's University. Around 11:10 p.m., on June 3, 1989, he was killed behind the flower bed in front of Building 29, on the north side of Fuwai Street, Muxudi. A bullet hit him from behind and passed through his heart. His ashes are kept at a mourning altar in his home.
TESTIMONY. "After the June Fourth Massacre, Jiang Jielian was the only casualty of high-school age whose death was acknowledged in internal bulletins by the authorities. Now it is known, however, that there were at least nine high-school students killed in the massacre. On September 11, 1989, on the hundredth day after his murder, we took his ashes home and put them where his bed had been before his death. On front of the box where the ashes are kept, his father carved the following inscription for our beloved son:
In these short 17 years
You lived like a real man
Your humanitarian nobility and integrity
Will be kept in the undying memory of history.
Your forever loving Father and Mother."
[Ding Zilin, February 1999] For details and testimonies of the other victims please click on the links given in the website below. Some are given.
Wang Nan
Yang Minghu
Chen Laishun
On the night of June 3, 1989, while taking photographs on top of a building by the northwest side of the Great Hall of the People, Chen was hit in the head by a bullet and killed instantly. After his death, his classmates pooled together enough money to purchase a plot of land near Jinshan Cemetery at Hongqi Village in Xiangshan to bury his remains. A gravestone was also erected there.
Hao Zijing
Xie Jingsuo
Xiao Bo
Sun Hui
Lu Chunlin
Zhang Xianghong
Cheng Hongxing
Wang Yifei
Yang Yansheng
Zhang Jin
Duan Changlong
Wang Weiping
Wang Jianping
On the night of June 3, 1989, Wang was shot in the left side of the chest at Xidan. His lung was badly damaged and he died in the Beijing Emergency Center in the early hours of June 4. His ashes are buried on a farmer's land on the outskirts of Beijing.
Wang Peiwen
Dong Xiaojun
Yuan Li
Ye Weihang
Wu Guofeng
On the night of June 3, 1989, Wu left school on a bicycle carrying a camera. He was hit in the back of the head by a bullet, and also had gunshot wounds in his shoulder, ribs and arm. After he felt to the ground, he was stabbed with a bayonet in his belly, as he had a two-inch long knife wound, and there were knife cuts in the palms of his hands. As an old person was taking him to the Posts Hospital, he told this person what university he was at and then died. On the morning of June 4, Professor Jiang Peikun, while searching for the body of his son, discovered Wu's body in the Posts Hospital. Jiang was entrusted by the hospital to bring the name list back to school. After cremation, Wu's ashes were taken back by his parents. Wu participated in the students' hunger strike for five days.
Wang Chao
An Ji
Yu Di
Yan Wen
Qian Jin
Liu Hong
Zhong Qing
Zhou Debao
Lu Peng
Zhuang Jiesheng
Yuan Minyu
Du Yanying
Lu Jianguo
Wang Zhengsheng
Li Changsheng
Caretaker in the library of the Automation Engineering College of the Beijing United University. In the early hours of June 4, 1989, Li left home and went to Tiananmen Square. He never returned and his body was never found.
Xi Guiru
Dai Wei
Wu Xiangdong
Liu Jiangguo
Lai Bi
Dong Lin
Guo Anmin
Lin Renfu
Sun Yanchang
Qian Hui
Zou Bing
Piao Changkui
Bian Zongxu
Tian Daomin
He Jie
Song Xiaoming
Liu Yansheng
Wen Jie
Li Huiquan
Zhang Runing
Liu Fenggen
Li Meng
Bi Yunhai
Liu Hongtao
Zhou Xinming
Wang Gang
Zhang Lin
Han Ziquan
Li Dezhi
Zhou Yongqi
Nan Huatong
He Anbin
Zhong Guiqing
Mu Guilan
Xiong Zhiming
Zhang Weihua
Gong Jifang
Liu Chunyong
Liu Junhe
Age: 56. In the early morning of June 4, 1989, Liu was at his watermelon stand, below the watchtower at Qianmen Road. A shot by martial law troops which hit the side of his face severed a major artery. He died in the Friendship Hospital.
Liang Baoxing
Luan Yiwei
Su Jinjian
Zhang Luohong
Wang Zhiying
Wang Hongqi
Li Shuzhen
Ma Chengfen
Yang Zhenjiang
Guan Xia
Han Qiu
Liu Jinhua
Wang Tiejun
Huang Tao
Tao Zhigan
Xu Jianping
On June 4, 1989, Xu was shot in the face and run over by a tank.
He Guo
Li Qiang
Luo Wei
Qi Wen
Liu Zhanming
Shi Yan
Ren Jianmin
Sun Tie
Su Shengji
Ren Wenlian
Huang Peipu
Zheng Chunfu
Cao Zhenping
Li Zhenying
Yang Ruting
Wang Qingzeng
Zhou Deping
Wang Wenming
Yin Jing
Yang Ziping
Zhao Long
Lei Guangtai
Peasant of Upper Xitaishang Village, Miaocheng Township; worked as a truck driver. At about 10:00 p.m. on June 3, 1989, Lei and two other drivers went to Tiananmen to visit the Goddess of Democracy. They were squatting by the wall of Nanchizi to have a cigarette when the troops rushed in shooting along east Chang'an Boulevard. Lei was among the many hit by the bullets. He was put on a flatbed tricycle by local residents and has not been seen since.
Zhong Junjun
Gao Yuan
Ni Shilian
Kuang Min
Yin Shunqing
He Shitai
Zhou Yuzhen
Zha Aiguo
Song Baosheng
Chen Senlin
Shi Haiwen
Yang Hanlei
Wang Yaohe
Peng Jun
Liu Qiang
Bao Xiudong
Zhao Dejiang
Cui Linfeng
Wang Fang
Liu Jingsheng
Zhang Jiamei
Li Chun
Compiled by the June Fourth Victims' Network
http://ebellefr.club.fr/victim.htm
http://ebellefr.club.fr/testim.htm#jiang
The 1989 Beijing Massacre in Tiananmen Square
June Fourth 1989
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