Doctors talk about Tiananmen tragedy and medical assistance blocked by CCP

Over 35 years have passed, but 85-year-old Huang Chen-ya has not stopped remembering how many Hong Kongers “deeply loved” China.

Huang, a former Hong Kong councillor and neurologist, was a leading figure in the city’s medical community in 1989.

The first thing he did when news broke about the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 was to contact a major hospital in Beijing.

“As a doctor, what worried me most was whether I could do anything to help people who were killed or injured,” he said of the rally to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the massacre held in Ashfield, Sydney on June 1.

“I called all the major emergency relief centres, and all the frontline doctors who answered were very uneasy. “All the major emergency hospitals in Beijing – all the frontline doctors I spoke to bring the same response to me.”

He had prepared emergency medical assistance for airlift from Hong Kong to Beijing, but it had to be agreed by the hospital leaders.

“When we reached a higher level, each director quickly changed the tone and said that the issue wasn’t as serious as it looked and that Beijing could handle it on its own and didn’t need external help,” he said.

“The massacre in Tiananmen Square is not just a tragedy of the Chinese people, not just the Chinese people, but also the Chinese people, but a common shame and trauma for all humanity,” he said.

The massacre was a turning point moment for both Australia and China.

While democratic hopes disappeared immediately for China and its people, for Australia, 42,000 Chinese people were given permanent residency, including students, doctors, scholars and artists, another addition to the evolving fabrics of Australian society.

I’ll wake up all night in sadness

Li Yuanhua, a lecturer at Beijing’s capital city of China, at the time, said he admitted that he was afraid of going home and leaving.

“I was very sad when I got home,” he said.

I waited at home, gunshots rang all night like firecrackers on a big vehicular day.

He didn’t sleep that night. I thought about the misfortune of a student at Tiannanman Square.

“I took a little stool and sat at the door and shed tears quietly.”

Students find the truth overseas

A PhD student, Wikichan is one of many Chinese students who once learned about the full extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s dark history abroad.

“I think we still need to remember history. Good and evil should be revealed for people to understand,” he told the Epoch Times at a photo exhibition held at the University of Sydney on May 30th, commemorating June 4th.

This is the first time that Chan has seen such a large formal photo exhibition.

“History exists as is. You can have your own subjective opinions, but it’s wrong to hide the negative aspects. It actually exposes the administration’s own lack of confidence, especially when it comes to restraining calls for human rights and freedom,” he said.

Labour was encouraged to see the nature of the CCP

Li, now an Australian citizen, said the decision by the late Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawk to approve 42,000 permanent residency visas for Chinese students is a good decision in response to the massacre.

“He understands the destructive nature of this communist regime: the harmful nature, the atrocities towards his people. From his conscience, he made a decision from his position, and looking back today, we are truly considered an act of noble and courage.

“I think today’s Labour Government should take a closer look at what the CCP has done throughout history. We can’t listen to what the CCP says.”

Lee mentioned the intentional obstacles of the CCP when former Prime Minister Scott Morrison first called for an independent investigation into the origins of Covid-19 in 2020.

In response to Morrison’s appeal, the CCP imposed trade restrictions and tariffs on Australia’s exports, including beef, barley and coal, which were widely interpreted as economic retaliation.

“In reality, the Communist Party is not engaged in the usual dialogue with you. It just knows how to subjugate you and bully you, and hopes you will kneel… there is basically no concept of equality,” Li said.

The former professor quoted The CCP’s denial of Hong Kong’s autonomous status describes the joint declaration of China and the UK as a “historical document” that “no longer holds practical importance.”

The Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed by the UK and the CCP in 1984, outlined the conditions for ending British regulations for Hong Kong more than 150 years later. It also guaranteed city rights and freedoms under the “one country, two systems” framework.

“From an Australian perspective, from an economic perspective, as the second largest economy in the world and our biggest trading partner, I don’t think you’ll really understand that,” Li said.

“We should also look at it from a humanitarian perspective, not as a normal government or a normal political party. That’s not. It’s a demon and is disguised as a normal existence.”