Tiananmen Memorial - Boston, MA
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N 42° 21.059 W 071° 03.575
19T E 330367 N 4690801
The Tiananmen Memorial is located in Tiananmen Memorial Park near China Gate Plaza ParK at the entrance to the Chinatown district of Boston, MA
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 03/21/2016
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From April 15, 1989 to June 4, 1989 a Chinese Democracy Movement led by students demonstrated in Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital, Beijing. The demonstration gained wide popular support revealing a deep discontent with the prevailing Communist regime. The protests were suppressed, before the eyes of the world, on June 3 -4 by Chinese leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law leading to what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
The City of Boston created a park near the entrance to the Chinatown district to honor the Democracy Movement in China. A granite monument at the entrance to the park is inscribed in English and Chinese:
TIANANMEN MEMORIAL
THIS PARK IS DEDICATED IN HONOR OF THE DEMOCRACY
MOVEMENT IN CHINA AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED
IN THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN TIANANMEN SQUARE
IN JUNE 1989.
RAYMOND L. FLYNN, MAYOR SEPTEMBER 10, 1989
CITY OF BOSTON