With all the political rift between the left and the right in India, and with the fake news propoganda at its peak, let us not forget or distance ourselves from the truth of the past. You or we can try to forget the past but unfortunately we can never change the past and the horrors of human kind inflicted on itself. What we must understand is that we learn from these histories and not try to hide it or change the narrative just so that it suits ones agenda at the moment. 

But, what happens when 2 ideas or 2 causes collide. The first one for "supporting a cause of freedom, for the greater good" and the other supporting a poisonous cause which is "Suiting ones agenda at the moment", happens?  

That's what exactly happened at The Tiananmen Square protests, known as the June Fourth Incident,  in China, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989.

Also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre ,troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square. The protests started on 15 April and were forcibly suppressed on 4 June when the government declared martial law and sent the People's Liberation Army to occupy parts of central Beijing. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded.

Protests began after the death of pro-reform Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989 amid the backdrop of rapid economic development and social change in post-Mao China, reflecting anxieties among the people and political élite about the country's future. The reforms of the 1980s had led to a nascent market economy that benefited some people but seriously disadvantaged others, and the one-party political system also faced a challenge to its legitimacy. Common grievances at the time included inflation, corruption, limited preparedness of graduates for the new economy,and restrictions on political participation. Although they were highly disorganized and their goals varied, the students called for greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech.At the height of the protests, about one million people assembled in the Square.

By May, a student-led hunger strike galvanized support around the country for the demonstrators, and the protests spread to some 400 cities. On 20 May, the State Council declared martial law. They mobilized as many as  300,000 troops to Beijing. The troops advanced into central parts of Beijing on the city's major thoroughfares in the early morning hours of 4 June, killing both demonstrators and bystanders in the process.
Considered a watershed event, reaction to the protests set limits on political expression in China, limits that have lasted up to the present day. Remembering the protests is widely associated with questioning the legitimacy of CCP rule and remains one of the most sensitive and most widely censored topics in China.

Starting from the lies and propaganda about the Covid-19 outbreak, to funding third world or developing countries and then aquiring thier assests and to the claim that Tiwan is a part of China, the Chinese have only caused the most harm to only one set or group of people. The Chinese People, cause everyone else can comment and write but will have a option to walk away, but not them. 

So what have we learnt here ?  
 

---sneaky_buddha