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Another Kind of Orient Express

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Jun 10, 2009
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Two decades after the chaos that enveloped Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, the story is finally becoming known of a heroic underground movement that rescued 300 intellectuals, student activists and supporters of the June 4 protest movement.

With extensive assistance from the British colonial government, a secret network called "Operation Yellow Bird…

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