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HEADLINE: ............................................................50 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BYLINE: JUAN J. WALTE SOURCE: GANNETT NEWS SERVICE, June 4, 1989, Sunday KEYWORD: CHINATRADE; VIOLENCE; DEMONSTRATION The bloody events in Beijing Sunday drove protesters into the streets of two places geographically and historically linked to China - Hong Kong and Taiwan, formerly Nationalist China. - In Hong Kong, tens of thousands of people, many of them weeping, rallied on a race track to mourn the massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing and denounce the communist government that will take over this British colony in eight years. ''This puts a chill on Hong Kong,'' said Anthony Kane of the New York-based Asia Society. ''People might now think this could happen to them'' when Hong Kong reverts to China in 1997 under a treaty signed with the British. ''There's been evidence of a grass-roots movement in Hong Kong to renegotiate the agreement and this will strengthen that tendency,'' said Steven Goldstein, a China expert at Massachusetts' Smith College. - In Taiwan, thousands of students, teachers, legislators and entertainers rallied in Taiwan's capital of Taipei to denounce the killings. Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui condemned the crackdown as a ''mad action.'' ''Taiwan itself is beginning to see the stirrings of political loosening, and so why in the world would any resident of Taiwan in his or her right mind now be part of another regime?'' said Goldstein. For the Taiwanese, said Kane, ''their conservative position would seem to be vindicated'' by the way in which the Beijing crushed the students. The Nationalists, who lost a civil war in China and fled to Taiwan in 1949, continue to claim they are the legitimate government of all China. The Nationalists and Chinese Communists are technically still at war. This might help explain why Taiwan's 500,000 army was put on vigilance Sunday. There also were demonstrations in another part of the Chinese mainland still under colonial rule - Portuguese-held Macao near Hong Kong. There an estimated 150,000 residents denounced Chinese leaders Deng Xiaoping and Li Peng. ''This will be incredibly costly for them,'' said Goldstein, who was in China during the Sino-Soviet summit. ''They have really set back the clock in terms of their international image.'' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. HEADLINE: Two thousand six hundred killed in Beijing .............108 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: Kyodo News Service Japan Economic Newswire, JUNE 4, 1989, SUNDAY DATELINE: BEIJING, JUNE 4 At least 2,600 people died and 10,000 others were injured in a predawn military attack on students campaining democracy, Chinese Red Cross sources said late Sunday. Pro-democracy students and their supporters are continuing to resist government troops by erecting barricades and setting fire to military vehicles following the bloody crackdown on protestors in Tiananmen square early Sunday, sources here said. Demonstrators also made off with military equipment and continued to harass troops following the military's push into Tiananmen square which resulted in at least 200 deaths and 2,000 injuries to protestors, according to eyewitnesses. Seven soldier were also killed and hundreds injured as troops moved in to disperse demonstrators who had occupied the square since May 13, sources said. Troops are prepared to concentrate their attention on breaking up resistance in Beijing's heidian district, where students have erected barricades around college campuses, they said. The general public has been barred from entering the square, which is now being occupied by some 60 government tanks and armored personnel carriers. The Beijing hotel, located 500 meters east of the square has also been sealed off, eyewitness said. Sunday's bloodshed has also sparked a run on basic commodities and toiletries by local residents at stores in the capital, sources said. China's martial law enforcement authorities sunday crushed a student pro-democracy campaign in a predawn tank-spearheaded attack on tiananmen square. At least 10 people were killed and more than 2,000 others were injured in the bloodshed, mostly from gunshots from the troops. The bloody suppression aroused widespread anger among citizens in beijing, and there are rumors of a split within the ruling communist party and the military. Hardliners within the party put down the pro-democracy movement by sheer force, but the chinese government apparently faces continued political instability. The 100,000 troops took part in the military suppression. tanks joined the assault, with fighting and confrontations reported in most parts of the city. Witnesses said troops launched their assault on Tiananmen square, the symbol of the pro-democracy campaign, at 1:40 a.m. and fired at students and citizens who had gathered around the monument to the people's heroes. Many people were reported killed. The 1,000 or so students who put up a final resistance at the square vacated it by 5 a.m. after an ultimatum for soldiers that they will use force to clear it. Soldiers immediately ringed the square, which had been occupied by students since may 13. Clashes were also reported between troops and citizens on the streets leading up to the square. Gunfire rattled and armored personnel carriers charged their way into crowds trying to block their advance. Witnesses said some students and citizens threw themselves before the advancing troop carriers and were crushed to death as the carriers rumbled their way at high speed. One mother was seen holding the body of a 7-year-old daughter whose head was smashed. One elderly man got half of his face blown off by gunfire. 'They are just fascists,' one terrified student said. According to a bulletin put up a beijing university sunday morning, doctors reported at least 111 deaths in nine hospitals. Hospitals in the capital were overfilled with the wounded, and there are reports that there were an unaccounted number of yet-to-be-recovered bodies and the total death toll may rise to more than 700. Gunfire was still heard in early morning, and witnesses said tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled in streets while firing. An editorial of the liberation army daily, the military's official organ, broadcast by radio beijing sunday morning condemned the popular uprising against the military as 'antirevolutionary.' The editorial called the military suppression 'a great victory.' The military crackdown has shocked the world, with u.s. president george bush expressing strong regret over the bloodshed. In Tokyo, the foreign ministry also expressed 'profound apprehension' over the bloody suppression. Analysts say sunday's military crackdown is bound to cause great repercussions in China's diplomacy and foreign economic cooperation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. HEADLINE: Filipinos express shock at Tiananmen massacre ..............34 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUCE: Kyodo News Service Japan Economic Newswire, JUNE 4, 1989, SUNDAY DATELINE: MANILA, JUNE 4 Filipinos expressed shock on sunday at the military assault on chinese pro-democracy demonstrators at beijing's tiananmen square in which students were shot and killed. Renato constantino, a leading filipino historian and journalist, told kyodo news service in an interview that the resolution of the occupation of tiananmen by the military will not end the clamor for democracy in china. 'It will have reverberations in other parts of the country (china),' he said, pointing to the fact that protests had also occurred in other cities in support of the students. 'I am shocked. the attack can only be described as despicable,' journalist anna mariano said. 'i was not expecting it from a socialist government.' Mariano, a reporter for a western news agency, said the problem face by china's government was how to continue socialist economic and political reforms at a time when capitalism is still strong in the world. Roman catholic priest fr. soc villegas, a close aide of manila archbishop cardinal jaime sin, also deplored the violence committed by government troops on the protesters. Any form of violence is always deplorable. this becomes more serious because the students were unarmed,' said villegas as he appealed to chinese troops to reconsider their stand. 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