World News Tiananmen 20-year mark brings new repression

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Chinese police aggressively deterred dissent June 4 on the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, ignoring calls from the U.S. and even Taiwan's China-friendly president for Beijing to face up to the 1989 violence.

Foreign journalists were barred from the vast square as uniformed and plainclothes police stood guard across the area which was the epicenter of the student-led movement that was crushed by the military on the night of June 3-4, 1989. Dissidents and families of crackdown victims were confined to their homes or forced to leave Beijing, part of sweeping efforts to prevent online debate or organized commemorations of the anniversary.

Beijing has never allowed an independent investigation into the military's crushing of the protests, in which possibly thousands of students, activists and ordinary citizens were killed. (AP)

天安門事件から20年、新たな弾圧が

中国で民主化運動が弾圧された天安門事件から6月4日で20年を迎えたが、警察当局は異議申し立ての動きを取り締まっている。

Shukan ST: June 19, 2009

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