Chinese democracy movement
Days after the Chinese government suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Beijing issued a wanted list of ringleaders of the protests. In response, activists in Hong Kong, including the Hong Kong "Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China", set up Operation Yellowbird in mid-June 1989 to help wanted activists escape from China. According to "The Washington Post", after the Beijing protest crackdown, this group drew up an initial list of 40 dissidents they believed could form the nucleus of "a Chinese democracy movement in exile", with the help of the western intelligence agencies, and Asia's mafia, the Triads.