The Tiananmen amnesia

By The Manila Times

Jun 02, 2014 11:03 pm

Every June 4th, a collective amnesia grips the leaders of China.

On that day in 1989, thousands of soldiers smashed a pro-democracy demonstration of almost a million students and their sympathizers in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. In the carnage that ensued, thousands of demonstrators were believed to have died.

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