When media keeps secrets from citizens, massacres go off the record, says Shantanu Guha Ray in Oslo image Open Fire A defiant protestor stops tanks in Tiananmen Square,1989; Lanka’s Sunday Times is stopped from reporting the war (right) Photo: 64 MEMO.COM JUNE 4, 1989, is not a date that resonates with many Chinese. Only the nightmarish memories of that day exist for some Chinese because hardly any record exists of the several hundred civilians killed by the Chinese army as it crushed a democratic... read more
