Tuesday Map: The Beijing Massacre Map

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 6:44 PM Share

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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.

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August 20, 2008

Incomplete

With a name like "The Beijing Massacre Map," it needs to include much more than the Tiananmen Square massacre. It should include the many massacred over the centuries in Beijing. Now that would be an interesting map.
 

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