[cletus]

Let me try: there has been no acknowledgment, moral reckoning, mea culpa, apology, investigation or national discussion about this by those in power in 1989, nor by any of their successors to date.

In effect the argument is being made that without any of the above successive governments have been complicit during or after the fact.

[piva00]

Because a lot of people from that time are still alive. It's not politically interesting to go against the military, even more if the commanders came from that era.

Unfortunately, they will only recognise and apologise after that generation is long gone, that is the reality of politics.