Interesting piece of digital art here on the 25th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests that were put down brutally 25 years ago today. This picture, like it or hate it, won’t be shown in China today – all information about this event have been blocked from all media – where that is possible. It is every bloggers duty to mark the event and to hope that our posts somehow get through China’s censorship firewall.

This isn’t, in case you don’t remember, just a piece of fanciful artwork – so here’s the real thing and there’s nothing like reality:

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STEPHEN DEARSLEY’S SUMMER OF LOVE BY COLIN BELL

My novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, was published  on 31 October 2013. It is the story of a young fogey living in Brighton in 1967 who has a lot to learn when the flowering hippie counter culture changes him and the world around him.

It is now available as a paperback or on Kindle (go to your region’s Amazon site for Kindle orders)

You can order the book from the publishers, Ward Wood Publishing:

http://wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-fiction-colin-bell-stephen-dearsleys-summer-of-love.htm 

…or from Book Depository:

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Stephen-Dearsleys-Summer-Love-Colin-Bell/9781908742070

…or from Amazon:

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In my eyes down mode, I’ve been coming to the final pages of my new novel’s first draft and yesterday, June 4th,  went by without me recognising the 24th Anniversary of the tragedy of the Tiananmen Square  riot, demonstration, or, more accurately, massacre that is still not acknowledged as such by the Chinese government who regard it as little more than a counter-revolutionary blip on the great forward march.

We need to remind the world of that dreadful day – the resulting long prison sentences for some of the demonstrators and of course the many deaths (somewhere between 200 and 3000 people died that day) at the hands of Chinese troops on the streets of Beijing.

I hope, but doubt, that new president Xi Jinping of China will see fit to reassess this blot on his great nation’s record. I hope too that on his imminent visit to the USA, he will be reminded of his duty by President Obama.

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