There was another anniversary recently, too

Yesterday (4th of June) was the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy crack down by the Chinese authorities. Not a great deal about it on TV or radio (that I heard, anyway).
There were ceremonies in Hong Kong –

But they would have been nothing compared to the original.



A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a million as the injustices of a nation cried for reform. For seven weeks the people and the People’s Republic, in the person of soldiers dispatched by a riven Communist Party, warily eyed each other as the world waited. When this young man simply would not move, standing with his meager bags before a line of tanks, a hero was born. A second hero emerged as the tank driver refused to crush the man, and instead drove his killing machine around him. Soon this dream would end, and blood would fill Tiananmen. But this picture had shown a billion Chinese that there is hope.
(Taken from:- http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm25.html)

Are the countries of the ‘free’ world ignoring this infamous event?:(

If so then why?:mad:

Actually, whilst searching for imagery to display, I was quite shocked about how many sites have disappeared in the five years since I last looked for pictures to illustrate this occasion. I recall that quite a few news organisations, proud of what their people on the scene had recorded for history, had pages on their websites devoted to this peaceful protest and the way it had been so violently suppressed.
Now there is very little to be found on places like Google – even TV grabs of the shopping man stopping the tanks now lead to dead pages.
Coincidence?

Flood.™