Tiananmen pro-democracy advocates still fighting regime, 35 years on
Wu'er Kaixi is still angry when he thinks about the June 4 tragedy that shocked the world 35 years ago, he told dpa during an interview in a tea house in Taichung, Taiwan, on a sunny day in May. The 56-year-old prominent Chinese exile was one of key figures leading tens of thousands of students who protested on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, demanding democracy and government reforms. The protest ended in a bloodbath, a subject that remains taboo in China, even decades on. All documents and files about the truth are still kept by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. To this day, ima...