Tiananmen Mom Remembers Son Killed 20 Years Ago
— Newsweek: “Twenty years after her teenage son’s death in Tiananmen Square, Ding Zilin waits for an apology she says will never come.”
— “On May 17 about 50 elderly parents gathered in a private home for a memorial service to mourn their children who’d died in the June 4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy protestors. One notable absentee was 73-year-old Ding Zilin, founder of the Tiananmen Mothers organization, who’d been slated to deliver a memorial speech. Friends said authorities were severely restricting her movements until after the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square bloodshed.”