Why is Renata Reyes of Mid-Levels (South China Morning Post, December 23) criticising the Chief Executive-designate for referring to the events on June 4, 1989, as the Tiananmen Incident and not the Tiananmen Massacre? Why then does certain media refer to the massacre at Sharpville, South Africa, as the Sharpville Incident? Why the killing of students at Kwangju University, South Korea as an incident and not a massacre? Why are certain parties branded as pro-China and others as pro-democracy and not pro-colonial? It is not unusual to find such subtle play of words by certain media supporting their own masters or causes.
The Chinese Defence Minister when declaring no one died at Tiananmen on June 4, 1989, probably learned it from the Japanese who do not believe there was such an incident as the Rape of Nanking.
Y.S. KUM Taikoo Shing