The ‘64’ years of the Republic of China exploited to mark June 4 (6-4 ), the date of the massacre. Remember the dead of recent decades, with an online "vigil”. Censors delete everything after a while. Rain washed flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square.

Beijing ( AsiaNews / Agencies ) - In the rare opportunity of being able to post messages using the numbers "6" and "4" , many Chinese bloggers have honored the memory of the Tiananmen dead, taking advantage of the occasion of the Chinese national holiday today that marks the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic .

June 4, 1989 tanks and troops fired on the crowd of young students and workers who had occupied the square for more than a month , demanding an end to corruption and more democracy . Hundreds, if not thousands , were killed and even crushed under the wheels of the tanks. Since then, the Chinese government has forbid people to mark, remember or write about the massacre of June 4, which in Chinese is called "liu-si", " 6-4 " .

Online anything related to or mentioning " 6-4 " is censored . But today being the 64th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China ( 1 October 1949) , the number was not censored . Intellectuals and activists have taken advantage of the opportunity then to post memorials and prayers for the dead of Tiananmen, even organizing an on-line " vigil ".

A blogger of Zhejiang posted pictures of flowers and the word " 6-4 , hard to forget " , immediately spread on other blogs . Hours after the censors deleted it .

Li Guobin , a lawyer in Shenzhen, posted a message remembering the dead of Tiananmen and all those who lost their lives in the 64 years of Communist dictatorship in China. "We remember - the post said - the millions of soldiers who have died in the civil war, landlords and 'anti-revolutionaries' killed in political movements, civilians who died in the Cultural Revolution, people who were killed in Tiananmen Square, civilians who died protecting their properties in forced demolitions, and street hawkers who died fighting urban regulation officers. "

The post was immediately censored.

This morning, in a Tiananmen Square under a heavy rain Xinhua reports 100 thousand people witnessed the raising of the flag which began the national holiday.

 

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