Chinese students in London call for global strike

Title

Chinese students in London call for global strike

Genre

News report; Vox pop

TX Date

5 Jun 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:39

Description

Chinese students in London are calling a global one-day strike on Wednesday to allow the world to demonstrate its abhorrence of the Beijing massacres to the Chinese Government. The students are also calling for companies throughout the world to fax pictures of the killings to companies in China to show them what is really happening. Margaret Shiels reports from outside the Chinese Embassy in London.

Contributors

Margaret Shiels

Keywords

Deaths; London; Government; Armed forces; Strikes; Embassies and consulates; Violence; China; International relations; Demonstrations; Democracy; Beijing; Tiananmen Square

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