WASHINGTON—A Chinese man stood quietly by himself at the Victim of Communism Memorial at dusk on June 2. It’s that time of the year again. A candlelight vigil commemorating the students who died in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, was about to start.
A survivor of the Chinese student democracy movement that ended with bloodshed in Tiananmen, James Wang, left the Square on the night of June 3, 1989, after military loudspeakers warned students who had occupied there for weeks that soldiers were about to “clear the field.”
Shortly after, the slaughter began. By the early morning of June 4, tanks and troops had cleared the area. Hundreds of students, if not more, were killed….