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The story of Shi Shan

Updated on May 31, 2014

Male, 27, cellist in the Beijing Air Force Political Bureau Cultural Work Group. Shot in the head in the morning of June 4, 1989. From Dalian City, Liaoning Province.

“Ma, don’t worry. I know what’s going on. “When the country is in trouble, every ordinary man is responsible”’—these were the last words he said to me. [After he died,] we didn’t dare cry. We had to go to the mountains, to the seaside to cry.