On June 4, 1989, the Chinese government brutally crashed the student-led democracy movement by military force.
The days and nights of month-long hunger strike and following days during the martial law are still vivid in mind.
The ambulances … directing the traffics and guarding the life lines along the Changan street …
The low flying military helicopters … blocking the subway stations … the buses with flat tires sitting in front of subway entrances … the rumors that the troops are in the subway tunnels …
The AK-47 automatic gun-shots heard from all directions and tracers seen in the sky … the tanks and APCs speeding from many directions … the fires in many places … the waves of moving troops from the darkness behind the large buildings along the Tiananmen Square …
The PLA assault team raiding the monument in the center of the Tiananmen Square where we stayed until early morning on June 4 … the tanks crashing into the camps …
The long withdraw back to the campus … the deaths of fellow students … the silent rainny nights except hearing gun fires from distance … sitting on the roof top at Tsinghua …
The hopelessness … the angers …
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May the fallen heros rest in peace!