A reminder of dark Times – China News

foundinchina.com — The Times today ran the following article from its archives of two decades ago. The numbers quoted are open to question, but reading the article provides a flashback to Tiananmen ‘89 and the sick brutality of a regime that turned the army on its own people and got away with it:

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