Anniversary
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Twitter.com was officially blocked last year, following the 20th
anniversary
of the Tiananmen crackdown and the riots in Xinjiang that summer.
Their loved ones would be waiting still to gather at the town’s memorial cemetery, where, on this anniversary, they dropped to their knees, drew their hands over their eyes, and recited the funeral prayer to Allah for forgiveness of the living and the dead.
Mohamed El-Erian of Allianz, writing in August to mark the tenth
anniversary
of the beginning of the global financial crisis, worried that advanced economies remain too beholden to a growth model based on liquidity and leverage, rather than on investment in public goods and human capital.
Now, the largest annual rallies tend to be held on July 1, the
anniversary
of the transfer of control of Hong Kong from Britain to China, when locals renew their commitment to the rule of law and freedom of speech.
Five years from now, Europe will be reflecting on the 100th
anniversary
of the outbreak of World War 1, which led to a loss of life almost without parallel and set in motion a chain of events that led to the creation of Europe as we now know it.
Or is there a hope that European leaders will use the
anniversary
to announce the successful integration of the remaining Balkan countries into the European Union?
Last month, on the third
anniversary
of the eruption of protests in Damascus and other Syrian cities, people around the world mobilized in street vigils and online as part of the “With Syria” campaign.
If an extended period of depressed growth following a crisis isn’t the right moment to challenge them, then when is?South Korea’s Middle-Power DiplomacyBEIJING – Last week, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, despite the opposition of her country’s closest ally, the United States, stood together with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tiananmen Square to watch the military parade commemorating the 70th
anniversary
of World War II’s end in Asia.
The upcoming 70th
anniversary
celebration of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea will reportedly entail a large-scale military parade and a ballistic missile test.
The coincidence of economic crisis with the 30th
anniversary
of China’s reforms has provided a timely reminder of the pain of the Cultural Revolution, memories of which make most Chinese opposed to returning in any way to the pre-reform years.
Sri Lanka’s False DawnNEW YORK – As the Sri Lankan government celebrates the first
anniversary
of its historic triumph over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), it is increasingly clear that the battlefield victory will prove pyrrhic unless the legitimate grievances of Sri Lanka’s minority communities are recognized and addressed.
And next week will mark the first
anniversary
of the extremist group Boko Haram’s night-time abduction of 276 schoolgirls from their dormitories in Chibok, in Nigeria’s northern Borno state.
This year marks the sixtieth
anniversary
of the Bretton Woods Conference that established those two organizations as pillars of international economic cooperation.
I was in Brasilia two weeks ago, when the entire country was commemorating the 50th
anniversary
of the military coup with cultural events and public activities.
It cannot be the same as the 1945 consensus, but we would do well, on this anniversary, to remember why that consensus was forged in the first place.
Europe needs to make up its mindThe celebrations to mark the 50th
anniversary
of the Treaty of Rome this month come at an opportune moment.
The Limits of German GuiltMUNICH – This month marks the 50th
anniversary
of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel.
Yet, as Russia approaches the 60th
anniversary
of its victory over Nazi Germany, marking Stalin’s role in that victory is proving to be damnably awkward.
May 1 (Labor Day), and November 7 (the
anniversary
of the Bolshevik Revolution) remain much more meaningful than newly installed postcommunist holidays, such as June 12 (Independence Day).
Victory Day this year will likely be the last “round”
anniversary
of 1945 that Russia can commemorate while many thousands of veterans are alive and able to participate.
Those who survived the war in Vietnam and fled because we were suddenly on history's losing side, grappled with questions of forgetting, of how to live an unremembered life – unremembered until an
anniversary
like this one.
When Germany's President came to Prague, shortly after our Velvet Revolution, on March 15, 1990 (the 51st
anniversary
of the Nazi occupation of the Czech lands), he did not have to say much, because the fact of his visit on such a day spoke volumes.
It was equally auspicious when the French president and British prime minister arrived on an
anniversary
of the Munich Agreement.
Nuclear Lessons UnlearnedVIENNA – Much of the world marked the 50th
anniversary
in early August of the Berlin Wall’s construction.
But, while that Cold War abomination has truly been consigned to history’s dustbin, September 1 marks another 50th anniversary, one that resonates far more directly today.
Last month marked the 120th
anniversary
of the discovery that female mosquitoes transmit malaria among humans.
This August on the 50th
anniversary
of Japan's defeat in WWII, hard-line Politburo member Liu Huaging invoked memories of "successive and fierce aggression by imperialist powers" to insinuate that certain antagonistic countries "will not accept a powerful and prosperous China."
As it celebrates its tenth anniversary, Al Jazeera is no longer new, but it remains a trendsetter.
The 40 th
anniversary
of the Franco-German Elysée treaty in January next year will be a good formal opportunity to do so.
On June 28 th , 1989, St Vitus's Day, while most Eastern Europeans were daring to dream of a non-communist future, a million Serbs prepared to leap into the past with Slobodan Milosevic, descending on the Field of Blackbirds in Kosovo to mark the 600th
anniversary
of Serbia's defeat by the Turks.
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