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Tiananmen Square, Beijing Most  estimates  put the death tall between 2700 and 3400. Ra'baa Al-adawiya Square, Cairo Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, said that "in Ra'baa  Square, "Egyptian security forces carried out one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history" and that "this wasn't merely a case of excessive force or poor training. It was a violent crackdown planned at the highest levels of the Egyptian government." At least 1000 killed . Why does the capitalist media reminds us every year about Tiananmen but not about Ra'baa Square massacre? Today the head of the regime that carried out the massacre in Cairo is embraced and supported by Western regimes. Could it be because the Chinese regime is led by 'communists' and has not liberalised/privatised the 'commanding heights' but the Egyptian one is more capitalist and a stabilising geopolitical ...

May Fourth, the Day That Changed China A liberal view

An interesting part in this analysis is "democracy", especially the one that should make you question the constant drumming in the mainstream (Western media) that the Tiananmen Square movement was about "democracy" as the Western liberals define it, inflating the role of students in the movement, and devoiding it from any class content.  A part which sounds weak for me is the first one about the scope of workers' control, as the writer has not backed his argument by evidence. The part on the historical process from the 1960s until 1989 is illuminating. The last part, post-1989, also sounds weak, for it does not take into consideration the industrial revolution China has embarked on since 1978 and its ongoing "tormented birth" in the passage to "modernity". ***** Students constantly tried to exclude workers, seeing the movement as “their own,” and sought to maintain its “purity.” Walder and Gong pointed out that until the end of May...

Why is there more remembrance by the BBC and similar news outlets of the Chinese regime's crimes in Tiananmen Square than of the Egyptian regime's crimes in Rabaa Square, although, according to HRW, the latter too was "one of the biggest single day massacre in recent history"? The world has forgotten Egypt's Rabaa massacre One of the largest killings in a single day War Crimes in North Sinai: HRW