When Ding Zilin heard that her only son, Jiang Jielian, had been killed by government troops on a Beijing street on the night of June 3, 1989, she immediately knew what every other devastated parent knew that night: You are supposed to shut up about it. Your son was part of a "counterrevolutionary riot." The stability of Communist Party rule was at stake. Your son is dead but he, not those who killed him, was at fault. By speaking out, you risk further punishment.
The suppression of the 1989 protests in Beijing caused hundreds of deaths and thousands...
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