Last week I recalled my memories of the day blood ran on Tiananmen Square. Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of the massacre.
Click through to view a series of of video reports at the Financial Times including an interview with Bao Pu who edited Prisoner of the State.
On this memorial of the bloodshed in Tiananmen Square, Cardinal Joseph Zen raised up the example of Tobias as one who honored the dead.
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