The Economist (US), June 24th, 1989
China The old men kill the young men THE firing squads have begun their work. On Wednesday China's state radio announced the first victims--three hopeless-looking young men in Shanghai, arrested a week before for their part in blocking and burning a train that had ploughed through a crowd of demonstrators, killing six of them. Seven other young people were executed on Thursday. So much for the appeals for clemency from the United Nations; so much, too, for America's observation just hours earlier that executions "could only deepen the wounds of the past few weeks". The wounds will be deep in...
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