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On the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
massacre
of June 4, 1989, two questions stand out: how has the CCP survived the last quarter-century, and can its rule endure for another 25 years?
Following the massacre, China’s conservative leaders attempted to reverse the liberalizing reforms that Deng had initiated in the 1980’s, plunging the Chinese economy into recession.
But Rouhani’s failure to make a decisive statement on Syria – even after a series of leaked photographs of systematic torture and
massacre
raised the ire of the international community – has not helped the case for keeping Iran in the fold.
Family and friends assumed that Public Security Bureau police detained them and that the couple would be released after the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
massacre
of fifteen years ago passed.
While ISIS’s craven
massacre
of Yazidi women in Iraq and Syria helped put it on the map, its gradual downfall is coming partly at the hands of Kurdish women fighting against it on the front lines.
But the veil that exists over how that omnipotent party makes important decisions is being lifted somewhat because a volume of unique materials about the behind-the-scenes events surrounding the infamous Tiananmen
massacre
of 1989 is being published this month.
Although the
massacre
in Tiananmen Square of June 4, 1989 happened over ten years ago, it has not faded from people's memories.
To be sure, the CCP has followed a strategy of co-opting social elites since the
massacre
in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
This maxim was not applied in Libya, either, such that the initial reports of a potential
massacre
of hundreds of thousands of people in Benghazi has since come under sustained and credible attack.
Finally, if such an intervention failed either to stop Assad’s
massacre
of civilians or to create the conditions for a negotiated peace, Syria would be no worse off than it is today.
For example, the US was wrong to invade Iraq in 2003, but it was right to join the fight against ISIS, and to rescue the Yazidis from a
massacre.
By then, the
massacre
of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, the largest mass killing in Europe since World War II, had already taken place.
A general's trialBUCHAREST: As Chile’s former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, under house arrest outside of London, awaits a final decision on whether he is to be extradited to Spain to face charges of having committed crimes against humanity, Romania has tried and convicted one of its own military leaders for his role in the
massacre
of civilians in the city of Timisoara ten years ago.
At first the Europeans, and their American allies in NATO, believed or hoped that they could, by negotiation, persuade President Milosevic to back down from his policy of repression and
massacre
in Kosovo.
Shocking things like the
massacre
at Charlie Hebdo in Paris happen, and they seem to be happening more frequently than ever.
September 11 th - by which I mean not just the World Trade Center massacre, but the skein of hateful, reactionary worldviews and organizations it revealed with unmistakable force - is a clarion call.
Indian Muslims will never forget the Gujarat
massacre
of just a few years ago, where a BJP governor seemed to wink and connive in the slaughter of countless Muslims.
By contrast, since the Bastille Day
massacre
in Nice – where an attacker, having received help from five men better described as criminals than as radical Islamists, barreled a truck into a crowd, killing 84 people, many of them children – the dominant feelings seem to be impotence and anger.
Similarly, much like the misleading “ticking time bomb” scenario has served to rationalize torture, the “imminent massacre” argument is used to justify immediate intervention.
On December 17, just one day after the Peshawar massacre, yet another 100 children were kidnapped in Nigeria – allegedly by gunmen from Boko Haram, a terrorist group whose very name means “Western education is forbidden.”
A year after the Godhra
massacre
and the subsequent anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat province, India is again sipping from its poisoned chalice - a flawed democracy laced with religious fascism.
In 1984, following Indira Gandhi's assassination, the ruling Congress Party presided over the
massacre
of 3,000 Sikhs.
This is perhaps not exactly what happened with the Dutch Battalion in Srebrenica, but the recent 6000-page report of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIO) suggests that when it comes to taking responsibility for the hideous
massacre
of 7,000 Bosnian Muslims under the eyes of a UN protective force (UNPROFOR) in Srebrenica, everyone now washes their hands and looks somewhere else to find who is responsible.
The Judgment of AleppoPARIS – We must halt the
massacre
in Aleppo.
The Dutch government has resigned over the Srebrenica
massacre
of 1995, which occurred when the supposedly "safe" enclave of Srebrenica, supposedly defended by a battalion of Dutch UN troops, surrendered to heavily armed Serb militias.
The
massacre
of at least 7,000 Bosnian boys and men followed.
It only underlines the fact that the international community still has scores to settle with the largest
massacre
on European soil in the last half century.
He believes that Tusk conspired with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bomb the Polish presidential plane in April 2010 as it carried a delegation of dignitaries to Smolensk to participate in a commemoration of the Katyn
massacre
(the execution, on Stalin’s orders, of more than 20,000 Polish officers, police, and intelligentsia in 1940).
Remembering the impact of Willy Brandt’s Kniefall at the Jewish ghetto site in Warsaw in 1970, I will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by visiting Nanjing and accepting Japanese responsibility for the terrible
massacre
of 1937-1938.
Another defining event in 1989 was the Tiananmen Square
massacre
of pro-democracy protestors in Beijing.
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