While China did its best to prevent any gestures to mark its bloody military crackdown on protesters in 1989, Canada’s ambassador and his wife cycled around it in what the Globe and Mail dubbed “a sly rebuke of the Chinese state and its forced amnesia…”
The newspaper reports that on Sunday, Guy Saint-Jacques and his wife, Sylvie Cameron went to the square to see the extraordinary security measures taken to prevent any memorials to those who were killed on Tiananmen Square. It’s not clear whether the victims numbered in the hundreds or thousands.
The ambassador later posted a message about the trip on Wiebo crafted to evade key words used by Chinese authorities to censor any texts referring to the massacre. It was posted Tuesday morning at 10am and elicited many comments and re-tweets before being deleted by authorities by evening, reports the Globe.
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