31 years ago today, the Tiananmen Square massacre. Never forget.

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image showing 31 years ago today, the Tiananmen Square massacre. Never forget.

GorgeousGregory on June 3rd, 2020 at 16:52 UTC »

Should we honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre by opposing authoritarian tyranny, everywhere, always?

boycottchinazi on June 3rd, 2020 at 17:52 UTC »

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Alberiman on June 3rd, 2020 at 18:58 UTC »

This picture is powerful but I wish we'd show the pictures of what happened afterwards more, this sterilizes it a bit too much. It's like talking about the holocaust by only showing the jews on the way to the internment camps. The visceral images of their deaths stick in your memory much more intensely.

Buzzfeednews (the good one, not the listicle one) did a great piece on this, but even if doesn't show the full weight (Some NSFL)

then you have images like this showing those who were shot dead and run over (NSFL)

I wish i could find the other images, the ones of the brutal cleanup of the dead. We cannot let our only image of the atrocity committed be of this man. He is a great symbol of standing up to evil but his use hides the true scope of the atrocities committed.

*edit* more courtesy of standoffattiananmen, super fucking NSFL. Literal images of people smashed and smeared and bodies absolutely destroyed