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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Concurrent Resolution 11
Sponsored by Representative BOICE
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Creates a day of remembrance for all of the people that lost their lives at Tiananmen
Square on June 4, 1989. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Declares June 4, 2025, Communist Survival Day in honor of all those who lost their lives during
the June 4, 1989, massacre on Tiananmen Square.
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Whereas on April 15, 1989, peaceful demonstrators gathered in Tiananmen Square in central
Beijing to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP), who was forced to resign in 1987 for supporting political reforms within the CCP; and
Whereas throughout April and May 1989, citizens from all walks of life, including students,
government employees, journalists, police officers and members of the Armed Forces, gathered
peacefully in Tiananmen Square to call upon the Government of the People’s Republic of China to
eliminate corruption, accelerate economic and political reform, and protect human rights, especially
the freedoms of expression and assembly; and
Whereas peaceful demonstrations spread from Tiananmen Square to approximately 400 cities
across the People’s Republic of China, and by May 17, 1989, an estimated one million Chinese citi-
zens had gathered in peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square; and
Whereas on May 20, 1989, the Government of the People’s Republic of China declared martial
law, and during the late afternoon and early evening hours of June 3, 1989, government leadership
sent armed People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops and tanks into Beijing and surrounding areas;
and
Whereas on the night of June 3, 1989, and continuing into the morning of June 4, PLA soldiers,
at the direction of CCP leadership, fired indiscriminately into crowds of peaceful protesters, killing
and injuring thousands of demonstrators and other unarmed civilians; and
Whereas June 4, 2025, marked the 36th anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square; and
Whereas to this day the Government of the People’s Republic of China continues to censor any
mention of the massacre at Tiananmen Square, preventing the victims from being publicly mourned
and remembered, and harassing, detaining and arresting those who call for a full, public and inde-
pendent accounting of the wounded, dead and those imprisoned for participating in the peaceful
demonstrations of the spring of 1989; and
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China continues to violate the human
rights of prodemocracy activists, members of ethnic groups, religious believers, human rights law-
yers, citizen journalists, labor union leaders and countless others seeking to express their political
or religious views or ethnic identity in a peaceful manner; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1893 HCR11
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That we, the members of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly, declare that June 4th, 2025,
shall be named Communist Survival Day in recognition and honor of those who so bravely gave their
lives at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
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