Wuer kaixi biography

Wu'erkaixi is a Chinese political commentator known for his leading role during the Tiananmen protests of 1989.
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Uerkesh Davlet, commonly known by his pinyin name Wu'erkaixi, is a Chinese political commentator known for his leading role during the Tiananmen protests of 1989.

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Honorary Chairman

Mr. Uerkesh Davlet, also known as Wu’er Kaixi, an Uyghur national, was born in Beijing, China in 1968.

In April 1989, as a student at the Beijing Normal University, Mr. Davlet was instrumental in initiating a Beijing student movement for democracy and freedom that galvanized the world. One of the most influential student leaders, he maintained a leading role throughout what became known as the Tiananmen Student Movement, and which ended when it was brutally suppressed by the Chinese government on June 4^th. His impassioned meeting with Chinese Premier Li Peng before the crackdown was watched on televisions throughout China and the world, making Mr. Davlet a household name in China and a representative student leader internationally.

After the June 4^thmassacre, Mr. Davlet was listed No 2 on China’s list of 21 most wanted student leaders. With the help of sympathizers in China and Hong Kong, he escaped from China via Hong Kong to France, where he was given asylum. In Paris, Mr. Davlet and his colleagues in exile founded the Federation for a Democratic

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Tiananmen Square survivor reflects

On June 4, 1989, Chinese tanks rolled into Beijing's Tiananmen Square to crush a student-led protest movement calling for greater political freedom. To this day, the death toll remains in dispute, but it is believed thousands may have been killed.

CBS News' senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer returned to Tiananmen Square 30 years later, to find its bloody history erased by modern China.

Wu'er Kaixi, who at the time was 21 and was one of the main student leaders of the protests, managed to escape the violence.

"I am the survivor of a massacre," he told Palmer. "I have to live with the guilt."

Although he and the students knew the government was threatened by demands for reform, he said, he thought there was "no way" it would come to "real ammunition and tanks rolling over people."

"You never dreamed it would come to that?" Palmer asked.

"No, no, no, no," he responded.

Tiananmen Square is now a tourist attraction under 24/7 surveillance. Clusters of cameras, for example, are disguised as lamp posts. And the squar

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Wu'er Kaixi

Chinese political commentator (born 1968)

Uerkesh Davlet (Uyghur: ئۆركەش دۆلەت; Chinese: 吾尔开希·多莱特), commonly known by his pinyin name Wu'erkaixi, is a Chinese political commentator known for his leading role during the Tiananmen protests of 1989.

Uerkesh achieved prominence while studying at Beijing Normal University as a hunger striker who rebuked Chinese PremierLi Peng on national television. He was one of the main leaders of the pro-reform Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation and helped lead abortive negotiations with officials.

Wu'erkaixi eventually settled in Taiwan, where he works as a political commentator. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Legislative Yuan twice, in 2014 and 2016.

Early life

Born in Beijing on 17 February 1968, he has ancestral roots in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.

Protests and discussions

Wu'erkaixi arrived on the scene in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in mid-April 1989, the very beginning of the student movement, after having founded an independent student's association at Beijing Nor