Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A821-O233

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A821-O233

Release Date: June 3, 2014

发布日：2014年6月3日

Topic: IFCSS Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of June 4 Massacre (Voice of America)

标题：全美学自联纪念六四廿五周年（美国之音报道）

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IFCSS Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of June 4 Massacre

-- Yan Qing and Jin Dao, Voice of America

June 2, 2014

WASHINGTON -- In two days, it will be the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, which was the culmination of the Chinese students and ordinary people striving for democracy and freedom in 1989. Recently, around the world, there have been commemorations organized for the 25 anniversary of the June 4 Massacre. One of them was the commemoration held in front of the Chinese Embassy by the IFCSS (the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, USA).

For 25 years, every year the IFCSS united with other "dissidents" to commemorate June 4, as well as the aspirations of the Chinese people this day represents. They held commemorations in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington and the Victims of Communism Memorial. The IFCSS is an organization founded by the overseas Chinese students and scholars in the USA after the June 4 Massacre in 1989, which cares deeply about China.

* The Fifth Modernization *

Dissident WEI Jingsheng proposed that China urgently needs "the Fifth Modernization," which was the call to establish democracy first articulated at the end of 1970's. He said: "In fact, we attend this event every year mainly to show the people inside China, instead of to show the embassy. We need to let people inside China know that people overseas have not stopped their struggle. Their friends overseas still care about democracy and human rights in China, care about those people being persecuted ."

IFCSS council chair HUANG Ciping announced this year's IFCSS Spirit of Freedom Awardees to be two democratic activists inside of China: "One is Mr. Li Chengpeng, the other is Liu Xianbing who is still in prison."

The victims and families of the 1989 democracy movement are also the concern of the overseas organization.

* Solidarity with the Tiananmen Mothers *

IFCSS council member LU Wenhe said: "In the past 25 years, IFCSS has always been in solidarity with the Tiananmen Mothers' legitimate three demands: investigate the truth, punish the perpetrators, compensate the victims."

WANG Weilin, the lone person who blocked military vehicles in Beijing, has been a symbol of the courage and responsibility that Chinese people displayed in 1989. An American sculptor has made a sculpture of him.

CHEN Qiao, the 17 year old daughter of dissident Liu Xianbin, said: "Today I saw a documentary of the whole process of June 4, which specifically talked about this person who stopped the tanks. I was really touched. I really can not imagine that one person can carry the dream of a country and its people to stop in front of a tank."

* Representative of conscience *

WEI Jingsheng calls "Wang Weilin" a representative of the Chinese people 's conscience: "the whole world see us Chinese people as not a coward nation."

YANG Qianyi, daughter of a Chinese dissident Yang Hai, is a high school freshman in the USA. She said: "I want to express my gratitude to the warriors in Tiananmen Square, because we know that they strived for our generation and our future, and devoted their lives for our freedom and for us to be able to live better in that land."

Original link of this report:

http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/1928735.html

which is also available at:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2014/IFCSS64commemoration140531VOAreport.mp4

or:

http://youtu.be/asNGsJNZxQo

Related video - poem reading of "the girl of 1989" at the June 4 commemoration:

http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/1928993.html

which is also available at:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2014/YangQYreading140531YangHpoem.mp4

or:

http://youtu.be/sPg-EEDlfqI

Related photo:

1. Wei Jingsheng unveiling sculpture "Courage":

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2014/newsletters2014-4/WeiJSunveiling140531sculptureCourage-c-3.jpg

2. IFCSS council member LU Wenhe give 2014 IFCSS Spirit of Freedom Award to CHEN Qiao, the daughter of its awardee LIU Xianbin:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2014/newsletters2014-4/ChenQ140531LuWH-c-6.jpg

3. IFCSS council member Zhou Jian introduce YANG Qianyi before her poem reading:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2014/newsletters2014-4/YangQY140531ZhouJ-c-6.jpg

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中文版

Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A821-O233

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A821-O233

Release Date: June 3, 2014

发布日：2014年6月3日

Topic: IFCSS Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of June 4 Massacre (Voice of America)

标题：全美学自联纪念六四廿五周年（美国之音报道）

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全美学自联纪念六四廿五周年

-- 燕青, 金刀（美国之音）

02.06.2014 06:47

华盛顿 — 再过两天，就是天安门事件、也就是1989年中国学生和普通百姓为民主、自由而抗争的那一段历史的25周年纪念日了。近日来，世界各地都相继举办了"六四"25周年纪念活动。"全美中国学生学者自治联合会"在中国驻美大使馆前面举办的纪念活动，就是其中之一。

“全美中国学生学者自治联合会” 25年来，每一年都为"六四"以及这个日子所代表的中国人的诉求，联合其他"异议人士"，在位于华盛顿的中国驻美大使馆以及共产主义受害者纪念碑前，举办纪念活动。全美学自联是1989年六四之后，留美学生、学者成立的一个关注中国的团体。

*第五个现代化*

1970年代末提出中国需要"第五个现代化"、亟需建立民主体制的异议人士魏京生说："其实每年这个活动，主要不是做给大使馆看的，而是做给国内老百姓看的。让他们知道，海外这些人，并没有停止抗争，海外的朋友，仍然是关注中国的民主，关注中国的人权，关注那些受迫害的老百姓。"

全美学自联理事长黄慈萍说，“学自联”将本年度的“自由精神奖”颁发给两位在中国的民主人士， "一位是李承鹏先生，另外一位是还在狱中的刘贤斌"。

1989年民主运动期间的死难者和他们的家属也是海外团体多年来一直关注的。

*声援天安门母亲*

全美学自联理事陆文禾说：“全美学自联过去25年来，一直在声援'天安门母亲'提出的三项正当要求，那就是：调查真相、惩办凶手、抚恤受难者。"

当年在北京只身阻拦军车的王维林多年来一直是中国民众在８９年所展现出的勇气和责任的象征。美国一位雕塑家为他做了雕塑。

异议人士刘贤斌的１７岁女儿陈桥说： "今天看了一部纪录片，也就是六四的整个过程，其中专门谈到挡坦克车的人的故事；我真的很感动，我真的不能想象，一个人能够愿意带着一个国家、百姓的梦想，而堵在一个坦克车的前面。"

*良知代表*

魏京生称“王维林”是有良知的中国人的代表： "全世界都看到，咱们中国人不是一个懦弱的民族。"

中国异议人士杨海的女儿杨倩怡目前在美国念高一。她说： "（要表达对）天安门广场上的勇士们的感恩之情，因为我们知道，他们是为了我们这一代、我们的未来而奋斗，为了我们的自由，为了我们将来更美好地生活在那片土地上，献上了他们的生命。"

报道的原始连接：

http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/1928735.html

该报道的存档连接：

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2014/IFCSS64commemoration140531VOAreport.mp4

或：

http://youtu.be/asNGsJNZxQo

相关录像-诗朗诵：“1989的女孩儿”

http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/1928993.html

该录像的存档连接：

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2014/YangQYreading140531YangHpoem.mp4

或：

http://youtu.be/sPg-EEDlfqI