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Today in Asian History
August 20
1905 Sun Yat-sen organized the Society of Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in Tokyo. He proclaimed these goals for the organization: "expel the Manchu Tartars, restore China, establish a republic, and equalize land rights."
1999 Four convicted bombers were executed in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. They were executed immediately following the announcement of their sentences. Two were executed for setting off a bomb in a textile factory on January 1, 1999 and two others were executed for bombings and robberies committed between 1994 and their 1998 arrest. A Hong Kong native was also sentenced to death but the punishment was suspended for two years. China suffered a number of bombings in 1998 1999. Provincial courts heard 32 bombing cases in the first seven months of 1999. Reuters cited a Nanfang Ribao (Southern Daily) report which identified extortion, social dissatisfaction, and robbery as the usual motives behind such cases.
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