Taipei (Reuters) – The Taiwanese president and the US Secretary of State promised to maintain the memory of the events of Place Tiananmen, obscured by China, on the 36th anniversary of the bloody repression of the student movement in Beijing on June 4, 1989.
This commemoration, said Lai Ching-Te in a message on Facebook on Wednesday, is an opportunity to “perpetuate this memory”.
“Authoritarian governments often choose silence and forget history, while democratic societies choose to preserve the truth and refuse to forget those who have given their lives – and their dreams – for the ideal of human rights”, continued the Taiwanese president, honored by Beijing as a “separatist” leader.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his part welcomed “the bravery of the Chinese people killed while trying to assert his fundamental freedoms, and those who continue to undergo persecution because they claim justice for the events of June 4, 1989”.
“The PCC [Parti communiste chinois] Actively uses the facts, but the world will never forget, “he added in a statement.
Lin Jian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, denounced the words of the head of American diplomacy, believing that they “distort[ai]enthusiastically maliciously “and constituted interference in Chinese internal affairs.
(Yimou Lee, Ben Blanchard, Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the , edited by Blandine Hénault)
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