Tiananmen and Gwangju: Contrasting the outcomes of 2 massive student showdowns
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com In all the stories I’ve been reading about the Tiananmen massacre 25 years ago, one element seems to have been missing. That’s the comparison between Tiananmen and Gwangju, South Korea. When I got to Beijing in May 1989 and saw these students taking over the square, I was […]