TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE

Early day motion 692, tabled 26 May 1999 by Jeremy Corbyn (Labour). Signed by 16 members.

That this House notes that 4th June marks the 10th anniversary of the 1989 brutal suppression of peaceful human rights and pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in which thousands died or were wounded; notes also that over the last 10 years the Chinese authorities have instigated no official investigation or parliamentary or public inquiry into the events of that day; and therefore urges Her Majesty's Government to press the Government in China to set up an independent parliamentary committee to investigate the bloody events of 4th June 1989 so that the victims and their families and those who remain in prison as a consequence are at last given the full facts surrounding the tragic events of that day.

Signatures by party: Labour 11, Liberal Democrat 3, Conservative 2.