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Daily Telegraph: Tiananmen remembered 20 years on

Daily Telegraph: Tiananmen remembered 20 years on
— “Fang Zheng’s last memory before he passed out was the sight of the bone popping out of his upper right leg as the Red Army tank rolled into him”
— “But he is convinced the protests were worth the sacrifice. ‘We exposed the brutality of the regime and we woke the consciousness of the Chinese people with our beliefs and courage,’ he said.”
— “And he is unperturbed by reports of apathy among Chinese students ahead of the anniversary. ‘The majority of young people don’t know what happened as there is no independent media,” he said. “We seemed apolitical before the 1989 protests and look what we achieved.'”