Added: Jun 6, 2009

From: NTDTV

Duration: 1:43

One of the main student leaders of the 1989 democracy movement is back in Taiwan today after being refused entry into the Chinese territory of Macau. Wu'er Kaixi was attempting to return to mainland China through Macau. He says he wanted to visit his parents, who he hasn't seen for 20 years. Chinese dissident Wu'er Kaixi, one of the best known dissidents from the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing 20 years ago, was refused entry at Macau on Wednesday the 3rd. From there he returned to Taiwan. [Wu'er Kaixi, Tiananmen Dissident]: "Today is June 4th, 2009, the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen tragedy. I deeply mourn for the ones who died in Beijing 20 years ago. I am sorrowful for their dream that's yet to come true in China, for their justice that's yet to be uphold, for my twenty years of separation with my family, and especially for being refused entry even when I meant to turn myself in. I am extremely angry and confused." Wu'er was trying to reach China via Macau to see his estranged father, but was stopped by airport immigration. The activist spent the night at the airport, refusing to board several flights to Taiwan until Thursday afternoon. Wu'er was one of the student leaders in the protests that led to the crackdown on June 4, 1989. Tanks rolled into the square before dawn and crushed weeks of student and workers protesting around the Beijing landmark. The ruling Communist Party has never released a death toll and fears any public marking of the crackdown could undermine its hold on power.

Channel: People

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