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**neguoogleX** · 06-05-2010, 02:50 PM

Jun 5, 2010
Remembering Tiananmen

TOURIST throngs and kite-flyers milled around Tiananmen Square on Friday under the watchful eye of security forces on alert for any attempt to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. In the semi-autonomous Chinese territory Hong Kong, thousands attended a candlelight vigil on Friday.

China's government has never fully disclosed what happened when the military crushed the weeks-long, student-led protests on the night of June 3-4, 1989, possibly killing thousands of students, activists and ordinary citizens. It has long maintained that the protests were a 'counterrevolutionary riot.' Public discussion of the events or any displays referencing them remain forbidden on the mainland. -- AP

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neguoogleX Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 405 Senior Member	Remembering Tiananmen Jun 5, 2010 Remembering Tiananmen TOURIST throngs and kite-flyers milled around Tiananmen Square on Friday under the watchful eye of security forces on alert for any attempt to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. In the semi-autonomous Chinese territory Hong Kong, thousands attended a candlelight vigil on Friday. China's government has never fully disclosed what happened when the military crushed the weeks-long, student-led protests on the night of June 3-4, 1989, possibly killing thousands of students, activists and ordinary citizens. It has long maintained that the protests were a 'counterrevolutionary riot.' Public discussion of the events or any displays referencing them remain forbidden on the mainland. -- AP
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