June 4th 1989 was a day of horrors never to be forgotten. It started as a day of protest, but ended with the loss and casualty of more than 50,000 lives in Tiananmen Square as Chinese tanks fired on helpless protestors. It was a day that shocked the world. A day when China emerged internationally as a country where human rights had no value, where violence took the place of negotiation, and where hopes for democracy died in the hearts of a nation.

It is a day never to be forgotten; a day we have an obligation to remember. Then, as now, the CCP has made the Square massacre a taboo subject, untaught in schools, forbidden in conversation, an event still cloaked in the same media blackout that occurred 27 years ago as men and women were slaughtered simply seeking the democratization of China. And now it is 27 years later, and the silence speaks volumes. One party rule still exists, and it appears that Xi Jingping has initiated an increased program of limiting civil rights, freedom of speech, and the dreams of a multi-party system. That loss of freedom is also spreading to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Lest we forget, this is not just China’s problem. The world community cannot allow this day, this event, to be silenced; the world cannot allow millions to continue to be crushed – not by tanks as occurred 27 years ago, but by the silence and loss of human rights today.

This video can help us remember, but only you can promise Tiananmen Square will not be forgotten.