CHINA
Surviving Tiananmen “Gentlemen” Mum On Chinese Nobel Laureate’s DeathBenjamin Kang Lim & Philip Wen, REUTERSLiu Xiaobo was one of the “Four Gentlemen” of Tiananmen Square, the group that staged a hunger strike in the final days of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in China and tried to hold off tanks and troops moving in to crush the student-led movement. Liu, who died in state custody last week, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and was regarded as China’s best-known dissident. But the other three have largely faded from the public eye and none have publicly commented on Liu or …read more
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