Volume 53, Number 13 · August 10, 2006
'June Fourth' Seventeen Years Later: How I Kept a Promise
By Pu Zhiqiang
The weekend of June 3, 2006, was the seventeenth anniversary of the Beijing massacre and also the first time I ever received a summons. It happened, as the police put it, 'according to law.' Twice within twenty-four hours Deputy Chief Sun Di of Department 1 of the Beijing Public Security Bureau ordered me—'controlled' me, in police lingo—to go to the Fanjiacun police station in the Fengtai District of Beijing. This 'practical action' of the Chinese government, although it violated basic human rights, was taken in support of the 'stability' that the violent suppression at Tiananmen had brought about.
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