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Cairo beginning to Resemble Tiananmen Massacre in China in 1989.
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Cairo beginning to Resemble Tiananmen Massacre in China in 1989.
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The present mess in Cairo is beginning to remind me of watching live the Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing in 1989. At first everyone in the western world was very encouraged by the pro-Democracy demonstrations by many highly educated Chinese College students. This went on for several days until the government began to massacre them and imprison them. The only ones who survive those days left the country. Most of those not killed are still in prison today in China. If that was the saddest day for democracy in the last 100 years, these days are also some of the saddest days for human rights and democracy during the last 100 years as well. Only Iran and Burma and sometimes China are more violent and brutal and fatal in destroying the lives and dreams of their people.
I understand the basic need for order in all cultures and nations worldwide. But snuffing out the hopes and dreams of the people only makes a nation, another one of the "living dead" nations on earth most typified by North Korea. The North Korean example is one of starving "Mummies and zombies" without good reason to stay alive, so many don't.
