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Beijing must “sincerely repent” for the bloody crackdown of pro-democracy demonstrators on and around Tiananmen Square three decades ago and promote democratic reforms, Taipei said on Monday ahead of the sensitive anniversary.
Tuesday marks 30 years since the People’s Liberation Army opened fire to end the student-led unrest. Chinese authorities ban any public commemoration of the event on the mainland and have never released a full death toll. Estimates from human rights groups and witnesses range from several hundred to several thousand.
“[Mainland] China has to sincerely repent for the June 4 incident and proactively push for democratic reforms,” Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement.
The council said Beijing had been telling “lies” to cover up the events of 1989 and “distorting” the truth.
Tiananmen Square crackdown, Xinjiang … China’s defence minister says Beijing got them both right
There was no immediate response from Beijing. It claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its sacred territory.
Beijing has increased government suppression of rights activism, pushing the demonstrators’ original goals further away than ever.
“Taiwan will continue to point to the direction of democracy for mainland China,” the council said, adding that it would support the mainland’s move to democracy “in all manner of ways”.
Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe on Sunday defended Beijing’s handling of Tiananmen, saying the government “was decisive in stopping the turbulence”, a rare official acknowledgement of the events of June 4.
Beijing suspects Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and her ruling Democratic Progressive Party of pushing formal independence for Taiwan, a red line for the mainland. Tsai repeatedly says she wants to maintain the status quo but vows to defend the island’s democracy.


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An inflatable tank display in Taipei’s Liberty Square marks the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing in 1989. Photo: Reuters

30 years on from Tiananmen Square crackdown, why Beijing still thinks it got it right

Illustration: Adolfo Arranz

PEK01 : CHINA-WORKERS: PEKEING, 28 SEP 89 - Accompanied by Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin, senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (R) greets a meeting of "model workers" in the Great hall of the People September 28. Observers say Deng is backing Jiang as his possible successor. REUTERS

Crowds march to protest against the Tiananmen Square crackdown [June 4 massacre]. 4 Jun 1989.

A girl wounded during a clash between the army and students on June 4, 1989 near Tiananmen Square is carried out on a cart. On the night of June 3 to 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square sheltered the last pro-democracy supporters. Chinese troops forcibly marched on the square to end a weeks-long occupation by student protestors, using lethal force to remove opposition it encountered along the way. Hundreds of demonstrators were killed in the crackdown as tanks rolled into the environs of the square. / AFP PHOTO / MANUEL CENETA

Song writer and pro-democracy activist Hou dejian (R) with three other fellow dissidents, academic Liu Xiaobo (2nd from R), official at a computer company Zhou Duo (3rd from R) and editor Gao Xin (4th from R), talks to journalists in front of the Monument to People's Heroes on Tiananmen before begining their hunger strike during the pro-democracy student movement, June 2, 1989. REUTER

WAS91:DENG:BEIJING,21FEB97 - FILE PHOTO 16MAY89 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (L) raises his glass in a toast with Chinese senior leader Deng Xiaoping at a luncheon banquet at the Great Hall of the People during a summit between the two leaders May 16, 1989. The meeting took place less than a month before the crackdown on the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Deng died February 19 at the age of 92. cm/FLS-Photo by Ed Nachtrieb REUTERS

Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Secretary General Zhao Ziyang (C) addresses the student hunger strikers through a megaphone at dawn 19 May 1989 in one of the buses at Tiananmen Square in Beijing where pro-democracy hunger strikers had been sheltered. Zhao Ziyang pleaded in vain against using force to crack down on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 04 June 1989, according to a document published 07 January 2001 by a Hong Kong-based human rights organization. The Information Centre on Human Rights and Democracy published a "self-criticism" speech made by Zhao to the Central Committee (CC) of the CPC 22 June 1989, in which he defended his policy of appeasing the students. "I was extremely worried that forceful measures, especially the use of weapons to solve the problem, would only lead to bleeding and a worsening of the situation among the vast majority of the population", Zhao said. After that CC meeting Zhao was officially removed from the helm of the CPC and replaced by Jiang Zemin, the

The occupied Tienanmen Square as seen from the roof of the Beijing Hotel. The image was taken with an 800mm focal length lens On June 5, 1989. Post Magazine, 02 SEPT 2012

TO GO WITH AFP STORY "China-politics-rights-Tiananmen" by Robert Saiget (FILES) This file photo taken on June 2, 1989 shows hundreds of thousands of Chinese gathering around a 10-metre replica of the Statue of Liberty (C), called the Goddess of Democracy, in Tiananmen Square demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing. Families of those killed in the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on June 2, 2010 demanded China end its silence and open a dialogue on the bloodshed. In an annual open letter, 128 members of the Tiananmen Mothers castigated the Communist Party government for ignoring its calls for openness on the crackdown that occurred June 3-4, 1989 and vowed never to give up their fight. AFP PHOTO / FILES / CATHERINE HENRIETTE / AFP PHOTO / AFP FILES / CATHERINE HENRIETTE

President Bush exchanges a toast with Chairman Deng Xiaoping during a luncheon Sunday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Blood red anxiety: how Tiananmen coloured the world of Chinese artist Chen Guang

Artist Chen Guang reflects on the painting Blood Red Anxiety at his studio in Beijing. Photo: Mimi Lau

Former PLA Chen Guang was given the only camera in the army in 1989 to take photo records of how the soldiers cleared up the Tiananmen Square. The images had haunted him but he was not able to lay them on canvas until 20 years later in 2009. Chen finished a series of paintings by reconstructing the photographic images he captured. He featured mostly his army comrades, student-protesters and the aftermath of Tiananmen crackdown. UNDATED HANDOUT.

47-year-old artist Chen Guang in his studio home in Beijing. SCMP/ Mimi Lau

Generation Amnesia: why China’s youth don’t talk about Tiananmen

Censorship, silence and time have created a gulf between the young people who witnessed the Tiananmen crackdown 30 years ago and those who came after them.

FOR USE AS DESIRED--FILE--The portrait of Mao Tse-tung overlooking Tiananmen Square faces off a statue erected in the square May 30, 1989. The statue was dubbed "The Goddess of Democracy" by students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, who modeled it after the Statue of Liberty. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener)

(FILES) Picture dated 14 May 1989shows student hunger strikers from Beijing University relaxing as several hundred students stage a huge demonstration at Tiananmen Square as they start an unlimited hunger strike as part of a mass pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government. The April-June1989 pro-democracy movement was crushed by Chinese troops in June 1989 when army tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square 04 June. AFP PHOTO

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