Lost memory of June 4, update #2

Not all young Chinese people are unaware of or indifferent to the events of twenty years ago in Beijing. Late last night I heard from one such person, roughly in the student age bracket, who had just been put under house arrest for the next week, until the "sensitive" anniversary period is over. The message I received today via mobile phone/SMS, before communication ended, was this:

Could you please blog, "Chinese people, don't give up on freedom, ever."

It is heartbreaking and, in a way, shaming for outsiders to realize how little they can do directly to affect the government's handling of cases like these. I would only hurt this person's prospects by saying more about specifics. But this is where my thoughts will be in the next week.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/06/lost-memory-of-june-4-update-2/18542/