//Canadian journalist Arthur Kent has recounted the horror of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre using newly restored video footage he shot during the crackdown.
The 13-minute film Black Night In June documents firsthand the bloody crackdown as student protesters fell back into the square after the People’s Liberation Army opened fire.//
//Kent said he left the square at around 4am, evading several groups of plainclothes policemen: “When they saw my camera, one group of cops tried to grab me. It was a close call,” he said.
“That said, the footage you see in Black Night In June has never before received a proper treatment in terms of length, sequential storytelling and, most important, translation of the students’ words – and those Orwellian pronouncements by the martial law authority, by the Party.”//
//The filmmaker said his tapes were hand-carried by willing passengers and distributed to local bureaus in Hong Kong or Tokyo, where the footage was fed live across the world. He added that pirated shots of his footage continue to be duplicated in videos about the massacre.//
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