RO — LARRY ROMANOFF: Piața Tiananmen: Eșecul unei Revoluții de Culoare din 1989, Instigată de Americani

 

Piața Tiananmen: Eșecul unei Revoluții de Culoare din 1989, Instigată de Americani

Beijing: 04 iunie 1989

De Larry Romanoff

Traducerea: CD

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Există puține locuri în China care par mai arse în conștiința occidentalilor tipici decât Piața Tiananmen și puține evenimente mai des menționate decât protestele studențești din 1989. Dar poveștile sunt greșite pe mai multe planuri. Nu s-a raportat niciodată în mass-media occidentală că au avut loc două evenimente separate care au avut loc la Beijing pe 4 iunie 1989.

Unul a fost un protest studențesc care a culminat cu o așezare în Piața Tiananmen de câteva mii de studenți, care a durat mai multe. săptămâni și s-a încheiat în cele din urmă pe 4 iunie.

Celălalt a fost o grevă a muncitorilor de o zi care a avut loc (poate nu întâmplător) tot pe 4 iunie, când un grup de muncitori nemulțumiți de soarta lor din viață, și-au organizat propriul protest independent de studenți și într-un loc diferit. Din motive care vor deveni evidente, protestul muncitorilor este centrul necesar pentru înțelegerea evenimentelor de la acea dată, așa că voi începe de acolo.

 

Revolta muncitorilor

 

Interview with Juan Restrepo - RTVE correspondent for more than three decades and a direct witness to the events in Tiananmen Square.

 

Interview with Juan Restrepo - 

RTVE correspondent for more than three decades and a direct witness to the events in Tiananmen Square

Juan Restrepo -- «Journalism cannot be a job for fanatics and partisans»

https://cualia.es/juan-restrepo-el-periodismo-no-puede-ser-un-oficio-de-fanaticos-y-partisanos/

Guzman Urrero: Although lately we seem to forget it, the center of journalism does not lie in the business of opinions, but in facts and their balanced description. This commitment to the truth is what drives the admirable career of Juan Restrepo, RTVE correspondent for more than three decades and a direct witness to some of the decisive events in our recent history. Among other experiences full of meaning, Restrepo headed the only television team present in Tiananmen Square during that tragic night of June 3-4, 1989. Talking with him is equivalent to recovering the essential principles of this profession that allows us to put reality between quotation marks. And, as Ciryl Connolly said, "the best journalism is to talk with a great conversationalist."

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EXCERPT OF THE INTERVIEW TO Juan Restrepo journalist of RTVE mentioning Tiananmen

 

Juan Restrepo: From Manila I began to cover the Far East until in 1989, a series of circumstances made me to witness, precisely in the country that most interested me, an event that was a milestone in the contemporary history of China.

 

Guzman Urrero: That's what I was going to refer to now ... In the early morning of June 3-4, 1989, you were in Tiananmen Square with cameraman José Luis Márquez and assistant Fermín Rodríguez. You were the only journalists who witnessed that eviction. That day you got a world exclusive, one of those that go down in the history of the profession. Before the Army acted, did you ever think that the student movement was going to end the communist regime?

Juan Restrepo: Yes, I did. And not only me, and so did many colleagues who were there for more than two months of crisis, as well as many foreign ministries in the world. What was happening in the countries of Soviet influence and in the Soviet Union itself made us believe that China would also open up, that the communist regime was living its last days. We do not consider that in China the parameters are always different from those with which we measure things in the West.

Guzman Urrero: The issue that brought so many Western journalists to China at that time was the meeting between the two great leaders of world communism. What happens when a great event is transformed, when you have to improvise, when circumstances change? Are working conditions also changing?

Juan Restrepo: As I already said, I was then based in Manila as a correspondent in the Far East. From there I would travel around the region with a team made up of a North American camera operator and her Filipino assistant. We worked in great harmony and, as always happened when there was a foreseeable event, we had applied for a visa to travel the three of us to Beijing, on the occasion of Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to China on May 15 of that year.

TIANANMEN SQUARE -- PICTURES -- VIDEOS -- Subtitled in CH, DE, EN, FI, FR, HZ, NL, PT, RO, SI, SP, RU

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - CN from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - DE from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - EN from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - FI from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - FR from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - HR from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - NL from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - PT from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - RO from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - ES from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989 - RU from Roberto Petitpas on Vimeo.

 Subtitles in CH, DE, EN, FI, FR, HZ, NL, PT, RO, SI, SP, RU

  

Unarmed soldiers with protesters

Chinese military and the protesters singing songs to one another in a friendly duel. This was the climate for many weeks. The Chinese government and most of the protesters never expected the situation to escalate.

The influence of westerners in Tiananmen Square is obvious, looking at all the large signs in English, expressing American ideals.

Here’s a picture of protesters giving food to the Chinese soldiers.

 Those who came to mourn Hu Yaobang, the beloved communist leader. In the beginning, these entirely comprised the group at Tiananmen Square. These students and workers were communists who loved Mao. They were not looking to be rescued by America.

Then there those who just came out to hang out, socialize and have fun.

For more slide shows, videos and text click on

https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/

https://cualia.es/juan-restrepo-el-periodismo-no-puede-ser-un-oficio-de-fanaticos-y-partisanos/

Juan Restrepo: «El periodismo no puede ser un oficio de fanáticos y partisanos»

 Guzmán Urrero

26 minutos de lectura

Aunque últimamente parece que lo olvidamos, el centro del periodismo no reside en el negocio de las opiniones, sino en los hechos y en su descripción equilibrada. Ese compromiso con la verdad es lo que impulsa la admirable carrera de Juan Restrepo, corresponsal de RTVE durante más de tres décadas y testigo directo de algunos de los acontecimientos decisivos de nuestra historia reciente. Entre otras experiencias cargadas de significado, Restrepo encabezó el único equipo televisivo presente en la plaza de Tiananmen durante aquella trágica noche del 3 al 4 de junio de 1989. Dialogar con él equivale a recuperar los principios esenciales de este oficio que nos permite poner la realidad entre comillas. Y es que, como decía Ciryl Connolly, «el mejor periodismo es la conversación de un gran conversador».

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Juan Restrepo: «Journalism cannot be a job for fanatics and partisans»

  Guzman Urrero

26 minute reading

Although lately we seem to forget it, the center of journalism does not lie in the business of opinions, but in facts and their balanced description. This commitment to the truth is what drives the admirable career of Juan Restrepo, RTVE correspondent for more than three decades and a direct witness to some of the decisive events in our recent history. Among other experiences full of meaning, Restrepo headed the only television team present in Tiananmen Square during that tragic night of June 3-4, 1989. Talking with him is equivalent to recovering the essential principles of this profession that allows us to put reality between quotation marks. And, as Ciryl Connolly said, "the best journalism is to talk with a great conversationalist."

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EXCERPT OF THE INTERVIEW TO Juan Restrepo journalist of RTVE

Desde Manila empecé a cubrir Extremo Oriente hasta que en 1989, una serie de circunstancias hicieron que me tocara ser testigo, precisamente en el país que más me interesaba, de un acontecimiento que fue un hito en la historia contemporánea de China.

From Manila I began to cover the Far East until in 1989, a series of circumstances made me to witness, precisely in the country that most interested me, an event that was a milestone in the contemporary history of China.