Prof. Ding Zilin (Simplified Chinese: 丁子林, Traditional Chinese: 丁子霖) is currently the leader of the Tiananmen Mothers. Her seventeen-year-old son was shot and killed by the government troops in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. She united the parents of the killed students to form the Tiananmen Mothers. Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... The Tiananmen Mothers (天安門母親) is a group of Chinese democracy activists promoting government redress of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. ... The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests , often better known as the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre or June 4th Massacre, were a series of student-led, pro-democracy, pro-socialism demonstrations in the Peoples Republic of China, which occurred between April 15, 1989 and June 4, 1989. ...
DingZilin is an advocate for the relatives of those who died in 1989 (This interview was conducted by CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Rebecca MacKinnon in the early spring of 1999, but was held for release until the first week of June 1999 at Ding's request.)
DINGZILIN: First of all, I want to say thank you to my American friends, to my American Chinese compatriots, and to friends from all over the world.
DING: I think that on the evening of June 4, 1989, when my son left his home, he was just beginning to taste how a man can participate in life.
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