‘The world must do everything possible to prevent a Tiananmen 2.0, whether in Hong Kong or anywhere else in China, by ensuring a proper human rights monitoring mechanism.'
Rallyists gesture with five fingers, signifying the “Five demands—not one less,” and posters that read “Heaven will destroy theCCP,” during a vigil for the victimsof the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay,Hong Kong, on June 4.
British journalist, author and religious freedom activist Benedict Rogers wrote on United Catholic Asian News that the protests signaled a world “beginning to wake up to the sheer brutality, inhumanity and mendacity of the Chinese regime as we see the incarceration of more than a million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps, the way the regime’s repression of truth led to a global pandemic, and the direct threat it now poses to Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms.
“Most of all, we must do everything possible to prevent a Tiananmen 2.0, whether in Hong Kong or anywhere else in China, by ensuring a proper human rights monitoring mechanism. That could involve the establishment of a UN special rapporteur, as some have called for. We must not repeat the cynicism of the past, when we stayed silent on human rights after a massacre. Instead, we must speak out for human rights before a massacre is repeated. Let us act now, before it is too late.
Zhang didn’t know how her son ended up there, and it took several months in the face of much official obstruction before she found out what really happened. Liu, Mosher says, had pointed out that the CCP was exploiting Han Chinese chauvinism and turning it into nationalist hysteria against imagined threats from the world facing China.
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