Tuesday Map: The Beijing Massacre Map
massacremap.com The makers of this week’s map want to remind visitors to Beijing of the violent history lurking behind the glitz and glamor of the Olympic Games. Freedom House’s Ellen Bork along with the Weekly Standard‘s design director Philip Chalk and Tiananmen survivor Tian Jian have created this map for Beijing tourists interested in visiting ...
massacremap.com
The makers of this week's map want to remind visitors to Beijing of the violent history lurking behind the glitz and glamor of the Olympic Games. Freedom House's Ellen Bork along with the Weekly Standard's design director Philip Chalk and Tiananmen survivor Tian Jian have created this map for Beijing tourists interested in visiting the sites of the June 4, 1989 massacre of the Tiananmen Square protestors. Each number shows the place where where one of the 176 victims were killed or the hospitals to which their bodies were taken.
You can find information on the victims here and read Bork's explanation of the map at the New York Sun's site.
The makers of this week’s map want to remind visitors to Beijing of the violent history lurking behind the glitz and glamor of the Olympic Games. Freedom House’s Ellen Bork along with the Weekly Standard‘s design director Philip Chalk and Tiananmen survivor Tian Jian have created this map for Beijing tourists interested in visiting the sites of the June 4, 1989 massacre of the Tiananmen Square protestors. Each number shows the place where where one of the 176 victims were killed or the hospitals to which their bodies were taken.
You can find information on the victims here and read Bork’s explanation of the map at the New York Sun‘s site.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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