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20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square

Remembering Tiananmen Square

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

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Stephen Zunes

On the eve of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, musicians sang together in the Catskill Mountains, protesting not only the tragedy unfolding in Beijing, but the betrayals of 20th century socialism.

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Returning to Tiananmen Square

Jeff Widener | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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Jeff Widener

I had reservations about returning to Tiananmen Square. But as I walked down one of the wide, tree-lined boulevards near the US Embassy, I felt such peace from that hell two decades earlier.

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History Matters: Remembering Tiananmen (and Abu Ghraib)

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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Leah Anthony Libresco

In twenty years, will the iconic image of Tiananmen Square be in Chinese textbooks? Will the iconic image of Abu Ghraib be in ours?

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