GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An estimated 150,000 people are expected to rally in Victoria Park in HongKong Monday evening to remember the students who died in Tiananmen Square in Beijing 23 years ago. China, which does not allow remembrance ceremonies in other parts of the country, is cracking down this week on the use of the [...]
The Tiananmen hangover keeps the world talking, but China mostly silent
June 4, 2009 by
The United States and Britain are encouraging China to come out into the open about what happened during the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in Beijing 20 years ago, June 1989, reports the BBC, with statements from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s statement is interpreted by at [...]
