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Statue outside the Mao Zedong Mausoleum in Tiananmen Square, BeijingRelated content
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I would've mentioned what happened on June 4th 1989
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Yes. That's very well known. And most places have their bloody pasts. I have walked the streets of Bosnia and Croatia and Serbia where even more recent horrors have happened. My own Australia has a disgraceful past in relation to its indigenous people. Quiet corners of London, like the Smithfield meat markets, once saw crowds gather to see people hung, drawn and quartered. The Place de la Concorde (!?!) in Paris. The Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg from which city my grandparents escaped in the weeks before the Romanovs were assassinated. All these places have grim shadows. I've been to a square in Bukhara where Genghis Khan trampled children to death with his horse, and Registan Square in Samarkand where in 1929 several hundred women took off their head coverings and were butchered by their fathers and brothers. I've never been to Selma Alabama or Wounded Knee. I've been to the Peace Park in Hiroshima and shook my head and wept in disbelief. I avoided going to Auschwitz because I don't need to be reminded of what my godparents endured.
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I know but china seems to censor the fact they murdered many innocent people that day as well as that man who stood in front of a row of tanks
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Yes, they do. And the US almost seems proud that they killed over 100,000 people with one bomb in 1945. The Australian government really doesn't like to face up to our past of massacring indigenous people. Japanese school children are not taught of their country's wrongs in China and World War 2. I guess control of the press, either by governments or by dishonest media, is a significant factor. Freedom of the press and protection of whistle-blowers are really important. Julian Assange found out that revealing nasty national secrets has its cost. In many countries such activity would have seen him silenced very quickly. If the US ever get him back he'll be silenced by 175 years of solitary confinement.
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Your Iwo Jima monument has a similar 'climb' to it, and probably makes a similar symbolic statement.
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