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This 12 months marks the thirty fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Incident and the fifth anniversary of the anti-extradition motion in Hong Kong. Many commemorative occasions had been held in Canada’s two main cities on the east and west coasts. Witnesses of the June 4th incident shared what they noticed and heard in Tiananmen Sq., saying that the spirit of the June 4th incident shouldn’t be forgotten. The chaotic enlargement of powers of Taiwan’s “Legislative Yuan” is worrying. Some folks in Hong Kong known as on the Taiwanese folks to be extra vigilant and to not let Taiwan turn out to be the subsequent Hong Kong.
This 12 months, Vancouver’s annual June 4th commemoration occasion kicked off with a “Flash Mob in Assist of Taiwan.” Some immigrants from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan stood on the streets within the heavy rain to help the Taiwanese folks’s calls for for democracy and the rule of legislation. They didn’t need the Taiwan Legislative Yuan to turn out to be the Hong Kong Legislative Council and the Nationwide Folks’s Congress of China.
Pastor Liu Fenggang, who was persecuted by the Chinese language authorities and is now in exile in Canada, mentioned: “Taiwan is a mannequin of Chinese language democracy. How a lot the Chinese language folks wish to expertise Taiwan’s democratic life, even for someday.”
Jerry Zhou, an immigrant from Taiwan, mentioned that exactly as a result of Taiwan has democracy, there are limitless debates inside and out of doors the Legislative Yuan. This valuable democracy and freedom can’t be destroyed by the CCP. “What we must always actually be involved about and anxious about are those that are attempting to undermine the system.”
The June 4th commemoration occasion held in Vancouver on the twenty sixth was offered within the type of a “Democracy March”. About 200 folks walked south alongside Granville Road in Vancouver to the Chinese language Consulate in Vancouver to protest and condemn China’s totalitarian tyranny.
Music Jianjun, a Beijinger who protested with college students in Tiananmen Sq. in 1989 and demanded political reform, mentioned the Chinese language Communist Get together denied the killings and wished to erase historical past, however the Folks’s Liberation Military did shoot into the group on the night time of June 3. One, however many extra died in a hail of bullets. “Folks did die there. We college students in Beijing and lots of different locations sacrificed our younger lives for our democracy. That is one thing we must always all the time keep in mind.”
Hao Dan, head of the Vancouver department of the China Democratic Get together, additionally mentioned that irrespective of what number of years move, the historical past of June 4 shouldn’t be forgotten. “The spirit of June 4th must be handed on. We take part in commemorations as a result of we love our nation and the folks of that land. We don’t want our stunning nation to be dominated by evil forces.”
The organizer of the occasion, Li Mabao, chairman of the Wenzhou Alliance, additionally known as on the world to not overlook that there are nonetheless numerous political prisoners in China and Hong Kong, and to be extra vigilant about China’s interference in Canada. We demand that the three ranges of Canadian authorities take motion to stop China’s infiltration and harassment, shield folks’s security, and safeguard the democratic system.
Toronto additionally held many actions to commemorate the June 4th incident on the twenty sixth, together with a June 4th seminar, a Wuhan lockdown documentary screening and sharing session, and laying flowers to the democracy statue. Chinese language folks’s motion Wang Dan and Wang Juntao got here from the US to take part. Some younger college students from China additionally participated on this occasion, promising to take over the baton of democratic hope.
