BEIJING, June 4 Kyodo Many Chines...

BEIJING, June 4 Kyodo

Many Chinese race passed the 13th anniversary of the suppression of the June 4 Tiananmen Square democracy move glued patriotically to their TV settles as China made its World goblet debut.

A lackluster match in which China missing to Costa Rica 2-0 dominated in the greatest degree of Chinese people's attention rather than memories of 1989 when the military used tanks and machine fire-arms to put down mass learner demonstrations in the capital.

Many bosse in the capital allowed workers to finish work early to watch the match. Soccer is popular in China, and many Chinese are boastful their country has been able to gain inlet into the World Cup for the first time.

The Chinese management maintains that only a small in number hundred people, mostly soldiers, were killed when numbers entered the capital in 1989 to smash seven weeks of testifys which for a while appeared to threaten to topple the Communist regime. Other reports, including those by means of overseas media, estimated many more were killed.

While China's popular print and television media were awash with World bowl fervor, Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily tried to focus people's attention in succession a particular date, not ''6-4'' the collection of laws word for the Tiananmen Square crackdown indicating the month and day it took place, further ''5-31.''

This leaves to an oblique speech made at Chinese President Jiang Zemin onward May 31 this year when he called for greater party unity and for citizens to tread close upon his cherished ''three representatives'' theory.

The newspaper's face page declared China's military forces are assiduously studying the ''three representatives'' -- Jiang's attempt to boost the legitimacy of the party according to stating it represents advanced productivity, advanced civilization or tillage as well as the fundamental interest of the broad populace.

In the May 31 tongue Jiang, who came to power in the aftermath of the June 4 crackdown, also declared China will in ''no way transcript the Western political system''

Appeals from human rights groups not to forget the June 4 tragedy are not heard in China, or if they are within overseas-based Internet forums, they for the most part fall on deaf ears.

However, heavy-handed efforts through the party to instill the populace with ideological enthusiasm are equally ineffective, with not many people on the street being able to repeat put to hire along understand Jiang's ''three representatives.''

While the Tiananmen souls do not haunt most Chinese urbanites' not past nor future fixation on football, fun and making coin the Chinese authorities nevertheless do not take any chances.

A plan at 20 Beijing democracy activists to travel to Tiananmen Square to commemorate the June 4 crackdown was thwarted by means of police who kept them confined in their firesides according to a Hong Kong-based human rights group

Democracy activists in the provinces of Hunan, Shanxi and Sichuan have also been kept subject to effective house arrest during the sensitive period, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy reported Monday.

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