A broadway star has abruptly withdrawn from the leading role in the musical about Tiananmen massacre in 1989 just weeks before its debut, while he’s touring in China.
Lawyers for the families of the 96 soccer fans killed in the April 15, 1989, Hillsborough disaster have revealed a civil lawsuit against the South Yorkshire and West Midlands police, filed in 2015.
On April 15, 1989, 96 football fans died from being crushed to the point of asphyxiation during an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough Stadium between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
November 9 should be the day when Germans have one big party. It’s a day that should be akin to the July 4 in the USA or July 14 in France. A day when Germans look back and remember something positive, something constructive about which they can be justifiably proud.
Former Beijing mayor Chen Xitong, who was mayor during the Tiananmen Square student protests in 1989 and widely believed to be one of the perpetrators of the subsequent massacre, passed away on June 2 at the age of 84, the semi-official Hong Kong China News Agency (HKCNA) reported on Tuesday.
With the death on April 15, 1989 of Hu Yaobang, the former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party who was beloved as a reformer, students in Beijing and around the country began taking steps to honor his memory.
Despite the efforts by the Chinese regime to make the population forget the events around June 4, 1989, vivid photographs taken at the time continue to bear witness to the days and weeks leading up to the massacre.