Coinciding with the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown (known in China as the June Fourth Movement), the Chinese government has removed a cartoon referencing the student-led protest from China’s Southern Metropolis Daily website.The name of the cartoonist in question has not been publicized.
If the June Fourth Movement, which resulted in thousands of deaths, is of little importance (the incident is not part of any education curriculum in China), then why is the Chinese government afraid of representations of it?
The cartoon above was originally posted at: http://www.rue89.com/chinatown/2010/06/03/resistance-subliminale-contre-loubli-de-lhomme-de-tiananmen-153496
Read more about the censorship here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/02/tiananmen-square-cartoon
And here: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2010/06/tank-cartoon-censored-on-eve-of-anniversary-of-tiananmen-square/
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