22 years on

"...the power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet...Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places...And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know...those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy....The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden. If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better." - JK Rowling

Not trying to be brave and heroic. But I truly believe in what JKR said above. That is why I find it obligatory to attend the candle light vigil at Victoria Park on June 4. That is the very least we can do. And there is virtually no risk or danger at all. Being residents of a tiny special administrative region where freedom of expression and demonstration is not a dream or a joke you might as well cherish the legacy and exercise it while you can. To raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice, to tell those responsible for the wrongful mass killing that we have not forgotten what they did, and that nothing could ever justify such bloodcurdling act. Justice does not always prevail. It might be all for nothing. Only...only I think one should know better...Otherwise how do you believe in kindness and benevolence in human nature? I honestly don't know.

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Amnesty International China: Tiananmen, 22 years on, the repressive patterns continue

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