Tien'anmen Square

What happened at Tienanmen Square was a complete disaster. I couldn't and can not fathom what occurred.

Communist China, it seemed, wanted nothing but to keep control of everything. At the mere mention of Democracy, China took charge and tried to stop it. The protests for Democracy and change lasted for seven weeks and ended on June 4th in Tienanmen Square where a massacre ensued on both June 4th and the day before. Government soldiers shot openly into the public, first so that they would disperse and later, it appeared, just because they were still there. On the day that Tank Man halted the tank, soldiers fired at a large crowd's retreating back for over a dozen times.

What frightens and intrigues me is the censorship of the incident that is still in motion. After the massacre, the government tried to cover it up. No one could talk about it basically. Anything and/or anyone that alluded to the incident was flushed out. People were either exiled, imprisoned, or executed. Many books were destroyed and newspaper stopped. The government obliterated all traces of the incident, only giving a slither of the tale they wanted to tell.

Now, no one who came after the Tienanmen Square incident really knows what happened there. If they do know anything it's from what the government allowed or hearsay. People in other countries know more about what happened in China more than Chinese people do. The government insists that a massacre didn't occur. They insist that they did the right thing.