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- WORLD, Page 32A Call to Arms
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- The young man on the videotape appeared pale and tired, but
- his identity was unmistakable. He was Wuer Kaixi, 21, the
- former Beijing Normal University freshman who emerged as the
- most charismatic leader during the student uprising in China,
- then disappeared after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He
- evidently spoke from hiding in Hong Kong, where he is believed
- to have fled in mid-June through Macao. Thanks to an effective
- underground of sympathizers, only six of the 21 most-wanted
- student leaders have been apprehended. Wuer's friends say he may
- go to the U.S. to organize an alliance to continue the struggle.
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- Wuer's message was an emotional call to arms to Chinese
- dissidents. "Those of us who remain alive, our lives are no
- longer our own . . . We have to be responsible in our struggle
- for democracy and for science. We have to be responsible to the
- martyrs." Wuer said there were many that night. "Simply put,"
- he continued, "on June 4, the darkest day of the republic, China
- went sick." He said he saw "many comrades and compatriots"
- killed and beaten by "bestial, fascist troops" or "crushed to
- death and flattened out by tanks." In a separate statement, he
- likened the present rule in Beijing to "a black sun" that rose
- "on the day in June that should have belonged to a season of
- fresh flowers." He predicted that it would not last long: "Black
- sun, I'm going to shoot you down."
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