cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57660342
French Art historian Nathalie Trouveroy shared footage with Le Monde from her personal archives of the Tiananmen Square protests, shedding new light on how the Chinese regime violently repressed the student protests in June 1989.
The linked article contains a video (17 min). Here is an invidious link to this video with the comments being in French.
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The analysis of previously unseen images obtained by “Le Monde” and leading testimonies provide a better understanding of how the Chinese regime gradually shifted to the violent repression of the student demonstrations in the spring of 1989.
Spring 1989, Tiananmen Square. At the heart of the student demonstrations, a young expatriate, Nathalie Trouveroy, films the Beijing protesters, their slogans, their enthusiasm and their fear with her Hi8 video camera. These images, which remained in a family setting for a long time, are unpublished archives obtained by Le Monde.
Her husband, Guy Trouveroy, was then a political adviser at the Belgian Embassy in Beijing. For seven weeks, the couple were privileged witnesses to the regime’s hesitation, torn between dialogue, obstruction and repression of the demonstrators. When the movement turns in favour of democratic measures, the communist government sends tanks against the population. On the night of 3-4 June 1989, the massacre took place. The repression would spread throughout China.
Since then, the Chinese authorities have been trying to erase Tiananmen from the collective memory. But, thirty-eight years later, Nathalie Trouveroy’s never-before-seen video and photo archives have come to light. With these family images, the Trouveroy couple intend to preserve the memory of the victims of the bloody repression of the Tiananmen movement.
Again, “wumao” is not a racist term. The whitest guy could be a wumao, there’s no racial component to it.
If you don’t understand how that could seem racist, I don’t know what to tell ya, lol.
Of course you don’t, because it’s nonsense.
You honestly can’t think of a reason why that would be considered racist? You fuckin stupid, bro?
You don’t sound too non confrontational now.
When do I ever?
Your nickname suggests otherwise.
Bottom line, trying to argue that “wumao” is a racist slur is hilariously dumb. It’s a derogatory term coined by Chinese people that refers to CCP apologists, regardless of race.
So please, clarify: do you think it’s “racist” because I’m using a mandarin term, whatever that means, or, ironically enough, because you assumed that every CCP apologist must be of Han descend?
I never said it was racist, just that it seems like it could be interpreted that way.
Right. Since we are making shit up, it could also be interpreted as art.