The June 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square was the climax of a momentous human rights drama that had been building for years in China. But the U.S. media had rarely mentioned human rights violations in China since the Democracy Wall movement was crushed in 1979 and its leaders were thrown in jail. "Look at Wei Jingshen," Deng Xiaoping said of a prominent Democracy Wall dissident (Progressive, 3/87). "We put him behind bars and the democracy movement died. We haven't released him, but that did not raise much of an international uproar." Shortly after the suppression of the Democracy Wall movement, [...]