Alberta Man Helped ‘Underground Railroad’ in China After Tiananmen Massacre—Recalls Horror, Looks Ahead With Hope

It was Sept. 15, 1989, only months after police opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in what the world now knows as the June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Joseph Shi was huddled in a Cold War-era bunker in Kunming, China, alongside other young people, devising a plan to smuggle student leaders out of the country through an “underground railroad.” Police burst into the bunker and seized them in their sleep. But he was strangely calm. “After the courageous things we had seen in the previous months, I wasn’t really fearing anything,” Mr. Shi, now living in Canada, told The Epoch Times. The Chinese regime is even more repressive now, he said. But he has hope that today’s youth will resist and that the spirit which drove the students in 1989 remains alive....