The search for a better life has always been a fundamental precept for humanity. But only in a truly free, truly democratic society can this precept be something more than a myth.
Thousands of students and ordinary citizens of Peking lost their lives on June 4 while trying to win freedom and democracy. The people who died one after another under the tanks and bullets didn't even have knives, and deeply believed that their government would not unleash its power against its own common people. Either in Chinese or foreign history, this could be considered unparalleled bloodletting. The tragedy is that it is still continuing. . . .
As Chinese, we not only bitterly rebuke the brutal actions of the Chinese Communists, we also have a responsibility to let the whole world know the truth. This month's "cover story" reports on the course of the democratic movement on the mainland. We also report on the performance of, and the moral responsibility to be shouldered by, the mass media, through reporters just back from the "front lines." We also look at economic relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits after teh shock of Tienanmen.
The Chinese killed in this disastrous event are not truly dead: they live on in the hearts of a billion Chinese, and they live on in history.
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Artillery fire and bullets can kill Chinese fighting for democracy, but it cannot fight the determination of Chinese to win democracy and freedom. Chinese will always remember this heroic and tragic page in the nation's history. (photo by Chung Chung-hua of Asiaweek)
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