June 12, 1989
from the front page of the "Los Angeles Times"
"Deliberate Shocker?"
"Brazen Beijing Killings: Two Theories Arise"
by Jim Mann, Times Staff Writer [NEWS ANALYSIS]
excerpts
"Hong Kong - To the rest of the world, the brazen openness of China's massacre of unarmed civilians in Beijing seems inexplicable"
"Foreign correspondents present in Beijing in those bloody pre-dawn hours of June 4 felt almost as though Chinese authorities were handing them a telephone and inviting them to phone home with news of the carnage"
wait a minute - interesting article as it continues - but in other reports, it was a daring struggle to get videotape out, getting coverage of WHAT was happening was NOT easy!
I recall watching the live video from the window of the hotel room in Beijing - I thought it was live coverage that was being beamed all over the world through different broadcasters, through a single feed - then the authorities showed up at the door, came in to the room and the feed was cut.
continuing from Mr. Mann's article:
"There were quite a few individual problems, to be sure. But on the whole, the world press found it much easier to witness the massacre in Beijing than, say, the 1983 U. S. invasion of Grenada or last year's ethnic strife in Soviet Armenia."
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Meanwhile, from other articles in the "Los Angeles TImes" that day:
"Beijing's New Target: The Fax Machine"
also by Jim Mann, Times Staff Writer
"China's apparatus of political repression took aim Sunday at one of the principal tools of the pro-democracy movement: the fax machine."
"Chinese government radio broadcasts monitored by Hong Kong Chinese here asserted that police and security officials are now sitting by and keeping watch on all the fax machines inside China. The implication was that any resident of China who shows up to receive material faxed from Hong Kong or anywhere else outside China could get into serious political trouble."
"For good measure, Chinese radio broadcasts also ordered all citizens to turn into authorities all the Hong Kong newspapers they have in their possession. Hong Kong newspapers should not be found lying around the homes or apartments of people inside China, the government broadcasts warned."
"Even if Chinese security officials intercept the signal from one fax machine to another, diplomats say, they would not be able to decipher it unless they are actually present to take the paper as it comes out of the machine."
"The fact that the police say they are monitoring every fax machine in China is ridiculous," one Western diplomat said here Sunday. "They couldn't possibly keep track of every fax machine in China."
Throughout the past few weeks, many fax machines in China have been running virtually non-stop. Residents of Hong Kong, in particular, have been sending in messages of support, as well as news and copies of foreign press coverage of the events inside China."
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In the bottom right corner of the front page of the "Los Angeles Times" for June 12, 1989, is an Associated Press photo from an interrogation taking place ON Chinese television - a young man in a white shirt, seated, with his arms restrained - shadowy figures at his side, in the background; caption:
"The scene on Chinese television as a student underwent interrogation by army officers in Beijing."
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Also in the "Los Angeles Times" on June 12, 1989, page 10, from Reuters:
"China Warns Students in London"
London - Chinese student leaders in London, heading protests against the military crackdown in Beijing, were quoted Sunday as saying the Chinese Embassy is waging a campaign of intimidation against them.
The embassy was telephoning students to warn: "Don't think we don't care what happens in London," the students said in interviews with Britain's national news agency, the Press Association.
More than two-thirds of the estimated 3,500 Chinese students in Britain have taken part in rallies and marches outside the embassy in London and the consulate in the northern English city of Manchester to protest the killing of student-led demonstrators in Beijing June 4.
An estimated 5,000 people marched to the embassy Sunday behind a banner saying "Condemn the Murderous Government in China" and shouting "Long live freedom!"
Students say their marches have been filmed by Chinese diplomats, and the embassy has contacted the student leaders with direct warnings about the protests.
"We are still in charge in London," the students quoted the diplomats as saying. "We know everything you have done. We know everybody you have had contact with."
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Chinese Gestapo?
from the front page of the "Los Angeles Times"
"Deliberate Shocker?"
"Brazen Beijing Killings: Two Theories Arise"
by Jim Mann, Times Staff Writer [NEWS ANALYSIS]
excerpts
"Hong Kong - To the rest of the world, the brazen openness of China's massacre of unarmed civilians in Beijing seems inexplicable"
"Foreign correspondents present in Beijing in those bloody pre-dawn hours of June 4 felt almost as though Chinese authorities were handing them a telephone and inviting them to phone home with news of the carnage"
wait a minute - interesting article as it continues - but in other reports, it was a daring struggle to get videotape out, getting coverage of WHAT was happening was NOT easy!
I recall watching the live video from the window of the hotel room in Beijing - I thought it was live coverage that was being beamed all over the world through different broadcasters, through a single feed - then the authorities showed up at the door, came in to the room and the feed was cut.
continuing from Mr. Mann's article:
"There were quite a few individual problems, to be sure. But on the whole, the world press found it much easier to witness the massacre in Beijing than, say, the 1983 U. S. invasion of Grenada or last year's ethnic strife in Soviet Armenia."
*********
Meanwhile, from other articles in the "Los Angeles TImes" that day:
"Beijing's New Target: The Fax Machine"
also by Jim Mann, Times Staff Writer
"China's apparatus of political repression took aim Sunday at one of the principal tools of the pro-democracy movement: the fax machine."
"Chinese government radio broadcasts monitored by Hong Kong Chinese here asserted that police and security officials are now sitting by and keeping watch on all the fax machines inside China. The implication was that any resident of China who shows up to receive material faxed from Hong Kong or anywhere else outside China could get into serious political trouble."
"For good measure, Chinese radio broadcasts also ordered all citizens to turn into authorities all the Hong Kong newspapers they have in their possession. Hong Kong newspapers should not be found lying around the homes or apartments of people inside China, the government broadcasts warned."
"Even if Chinese security officials intercept the signal from one fax machine to another, diplomats say, they would not be able to decipher it unless they are actually present to take the paper as it comes out of the machine."
"The fact that the police say they are monitoring every fax machine in China is ridiculous," one Western diplomat said here Sunday. "They couldn't possibly keep track of every fax machine in China."
Throughout the past few weeks, many fax machines in China have been running virtually non-stop. Residents of Hong Kong, in particular, have been sending in messages of support, as well as news and copies of foreign press coverage of the events inside China."
************
In the bottom right corner of the front page of the "Los Angeles Times" for June 12, 1989, is an Associated Press photo from an interrogation taking place ON Chinese television - a young man in a white shirt, seated, with his arms restrained - shadowy figures at his side, in the background; caption:
"The scene on Chinese television as a student underwent interrogation by army officers in Beijing."
*********
Also in the "Los Angeles Times" on June 12, 1989, page 10, from Reuters:
"China Warns Students in London"
London - Chinese student leaders in London, heading protests against the military crackdown in Beijing, were quoted Sunday as saying the Chinese Embassy is waging a campaign of intimidation against them.
The embassy was telephoning students to warn: "Don't think we don't care what happens in London," the students said in interviews with Britain's national news agency, the Press Association.
More than two-thirds of the estimated 3,500 Chinese students in Britain have taken part in rallies and marches outside the embassy in London and the consulate in the northern English city of Manchester to protest the killing of student-led demonstrators in Beijing June 4.
An estimated 5,000 people marched to the embassy Sunday behind a banner saying "Condemn the Murderous Government in China" and shouting "Long live freedom!"
Students say their marches have been filmed by Chinese diplomats, and the embassy has contacted the student leaders with direct warnings about the protests.
"We are still in charge in London," the students quoted the diplomats as saying. "We know everything you have done. We know everybody you have had contact with."
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Chinese Gestapo?
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