Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A945-O271

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A945-O271

Release Date: June 10, 2016

发布日：2016年6月10日

Topic: People Commemorate the June 4th Massacre in Washington DC; Wei Jingsheng Sends His Message Calling for the Unity of the Hong Kong People (Radio Free Asia Cantonese)

标题：华盛顿民众纪念六四，魏京生寄语港人团结(自由亚洲电台粤语部)

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People Commemorate the June 4th Massacre in Washington DC; Wei Jingsheng Sends His Message Calling for the Unity of the Hong Kong People

-- by Huang Xiaoshan and Huang Letao, Radio Free Asia Cantonese Service

June 5, 2016

On the evening on Saturday (June 4th) , Chinese in United States came together for a candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington DC to mourn the Chinese students and citizens massacred 27 years ago. Some students from Hong Kong also made a special trip to attend the activities.

One of the organizers, IFCSS alternative council member Chen Chuangchuang, said in his opening statement at the commemoration that regardless whether it was the Cultural Revolution, the Democracy Wall, the 1989 Democracy Movement, or contemporary rights defending, Chinese pro-democracy activists are lacking intergenerational communication, which gives the Communist regime a chance to take advantage to induce differentiation, buyout, and suppression. How to deal with the Communist regime is an issue that the pro-democracy activists of every generation need to face.

During the commemoration in the evening, a letter from You Weijie on behalf of the Tiananmen Mothers was also read.

Sculptor Chen Weiming of the Exhibition of the State Terrorist Atrocities Conducted by the Chinese Communist Regime also participated in the candlelight vigil with his own production of the more than 3-meter high Goddess of Democracy statue.

Our station reporter contacted Chen Weiming on Saturday night. He said at that time the commemoration had just ended. His Exhibition of the State Terrorist Atrocities Conducted by the Chinese Communist Regime team traveled thousands of miles, to arrive in Washington DC before June 4th to participate in the commemoration and to give a live speech.

Chen Weiming said: Tonight, it was the IFCSS and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation which sponsored this event with more than one hundred people participating. Teacher Wei Jingsheng also attended the event. We also held a candlelight vigil. The event started at 7pm and ended at 10:30pm. Today, our Exhibition of the State Terrorist Atrocities Conducted by the Chinese Communist Regime from Los Angeles arrived Washington DC with more than 200 pictures and my more than 3 meter high Goddess of Democracy statue.

Chen Weiming said, after this Washington commemoration event, they will travel thousands more miles. The total tour mileage will be more than ten thousand miles.

After the commemoration finished that evening, our station reporter interviewed Wei Jingsheng, the chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, another co-sponsor. He said that this year's commemoration was similar to previous years, having a similar program. The difference was the works brought by Chen Weiming.

For various topics concerning the June 4th commemoration in Hong Kong, Wei Jingsheng devoted his analysis and commentary about its operation and strategy. He told young people of Hong Kong that people of different ages but from the same democratic camp should unite and support each other, instead of being taken advantage of by the Communist regime.

Wei Jingsheng said: We just had several college students flying from Hong Kong talking to us here. My opinion is that, even though the older leaders of the democratic activists have shortcomings even have made mistakes, they still belong to our same democratic camp. It is understandable that young people have their own perspectives as they are from different generation. However, regardless of different opinions, we should not split. The separation they are doing now would make the Communist regime the happiest. The Communist regime always uses this method to dissolve the opposition, to disintegrate one by one. So no matter there is disagreement or not, we should unite and support each other on large-scale actions.

For the demands of independence from young people in Hong Kong, Wei Jingsheng expressed his support of all independent activities in different areas in an effort to get rid of Communist oppression. However, to engage in political campaigns, we need to get more people to support and meet the actual conditions of reality.

Wei Jingsheng said: I support the Hong Kong young people's wish to be independent -- they want to get rid of the oppressions from the Communist regime. This is the final goal of everyone. In fact, Taiwan's Sunflower Student Movement also implied the same thing, which was to avoid and escape from the tyranny of the Communist regime. Same for Hong Kong's pro-independence group. However, I think that they are a little detached from reality for something they proposed. When you propose a political movement and put an unrealistic thing as its main theoretical fulcrum, then the theory itself is a problem. So I think sometimes young people are not paying attention to strategy. You want to attract more people! As a genuine political movement, we must consider the acceptance of the masses and a variety of realistic conditions.

Wei Jingsheng also explained on the wording of "vindication of June 4" and its background. He said: these pro-democracy activists from the battlefront of struggle in Mainland China and Hong Kong are facing direct pressure from the Communist regime. Therefore, they proposed more moderate slogans for survival, which can be understood. In fact, now more and more people, including people inside China have also understood that when the Communist Party is overthrown, there is no need to have the Communist Party butchers to vindicate the June 4 victims.

We report that on Saturday night, there were also second generations from the June 4th families. Yang Qianyi, daughter of June 4th student leader Yang Hai from Shandong Province, made it clear that as a second generation person from the June 4 generation, we should uphold parents' faith and keep on fighting.

Original link of this report:

http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/dc-64-06052016095106.html

Related audio is also available at:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2016/64commemoration160605RFAcantonese.mp3

Related photo (photo credit: Zhang Jiarui):

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2016/newsletters2016-2/64commemoration160604RFAcantonese.jpg

(The Wei Jingsheng Foundation is grateful to Yi Shi for his translation of this report and his other contributions to this Foundation.)

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Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A945-O271

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A945-O271

Release Date: June 10, 2016

发布日：2016年6月10日

Topic: People Commemorate the June 4th Massacre in Washington DC; Wei Jingsheng Sends His Message Calling for the Unity of the Hong Kong People (Radio Free Asia Cantonese)

标题：华盛顿民众纪念六四，魏京生寄语港人团结(自由亚洲电台粤语部)

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华盛顿民众纪念六四，魏京生寄语港人团结

-- 自由亚洲电台粤语部黄小山/黄乐涛报道

2016-06-05

美国的华人当地时间周六（4日）晚，于华盛顿中国大使馆门前举行烛光晚会，悼念27年前在中国被屠杀的学生和市民；一些来自香港的大学生，亦专程到场参加活动。

其中一个主办团体、全美学自联候补理事陈闯创，在纪念晚会开幕词表示，不论是文革还是民主墙、六四还是当代维权，中国民运人士缺乏代际交流，使中共分化、收买和打压有机可乘；如何应对中共，是一个每一代民运人士需要面对的问题。而在晚会上，亦宣读了天安门母亲代表尤维洁的来函。

中国国家恐怖主义图片全美巡回展的雕塑家陈维明，亦带同自己制作的3米多高的民主女神像作品，参加了烛光晚会。

本台记者周六晚联络得陈维明，他指当时晚会刚刚结束，他的中共国家恐怖主义暴行展团队行程数千英里，专程在六四之前到了华盛顿，参与纪念活动，并作现场演讲。

陈维明说：今天（周六）晚上是学自联、魏京生基金会发起的这个活动，有1百几十个人参加。魏京生老师也参加了，我们还举行了烛光守夜。活动是7点钟开始、10点半结束。那么我们洛杉矶平台中共国家恐怖主义暴行展今天呢，到了华盛顿，带了200多幅图片嘛，加上我的那个3米多高的民主女神像。

陈维明透露，在参与华盛顿的纪念活动结束后，他们还要进行长达数千英里的行程，今次巡展的总里程会超过一万英里。

纪念晚会结束后，本台记者访问了另一主办团体、中国民主运动海外联席会议主席魏京生，他透露，今年的纪念活动和往年一样，程序亦差不多，不同的是增加了陈维明带来的作品。

针对目前大家关注的香港六四纪念活动的各种议题，魏京生专门对其中的运作和策略进行分析和评论，并寄语香港年轻人，不同年龄段的同阵营的朋友，应该团结起来，相互支持，不要被中共有机可乘。

魏京生说：刚才我们在这儿也有几个从香港飞过来的大学生，我的意见呢，虽然老的这些民主派的大佬吧，有这样那样的缺点，甚至是错误。但是呢，毕竟他们是我们一个阵营的，年轻人对他们有看法，这个可以理解，时代不同了嘛。但是不管有没有不同意见，我觉得不应该分裂，他们现在搞的这个分裂活动，其实最高兴的是共产党。共产党一向是用这个手法针对反对派分化瓦解，各个击破。所以不管有没有分歧，但是，大的行动上，还是要团结一致，互相支持。

对于香港年轻人的独立诉求，魏京生表示，他支持各地摆脱中共压逼而进行的独立运动。但搞政治运动，需要争取更多人支援和现实的实际条件。

魏京生说：我支持香港年轻人要搞独立，摆脱共产党的压逼嘛。这是大家最终的想法。其实台湾的学服运动，也是这个意思，就是我们要躲避和摆脱共产党的暴政。香港的独派呢，最终的目的也是这样。但他们有些东西提出来呢，我觉得有点脱离现实。那么你做政治运动的时候，你把一个不现实的东西作为自己主要的理论支点，这个理论本身就成问题了。所以我觉得年轻人有时候不太注意策略。你要吸引更多的群众！作为真正的政治运动，必须考虑群众的接受度和各种各样的现实的条件。

魏京生还对关于"平反六四"的说法及其背景进行阐释。他表示，在国内和香港的民运人士，在斗争的第一线，面临中共的直接压力。因此，提出比较温和的口号图存，可以理解。而事实上，现在愈来愈多民众，亦包括国内的民众已经明白，只需要推翻共产党，而根本不需要共产党、不需要刽子手来为六四的牺牲者平反。

据悉，在周六的纪念晚会中，还出现六四第二代的身影。来自山东的六四学生领袖杨海的女儿杨倩怡明确表示，作为六四第二代人，应该秉承父辈的信仰，继续抗争。

报道的原始链接：

http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/dc-64-06052016095106.html