Tiananmen Anniversary

China Tiananmen Anniversary Gets Fresh State Crackdown

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

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BEIJING — In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in the hands o...

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Remembering Tiananmen Square

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

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On the eve of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, musicians sang together in the Catskill Mountains, protesting not only the tragedy unfolding in Beijing, but the betrayals of 20th century socialism.

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Returning to Tiananmen Square

Jeff Widener | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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I had reservations about returning to Tiananmen Square. But as I walked down one of the wide, tree-lined boulevards near the US Embassy, I felt such peace from that hell two decades earlier.

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China: Tiananmen's Unhealed Wounds (VIDEO)

Human Rights Watch | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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By Minky Worden Twenty years after the Chinese army killed untold numbers of unarmed civilians in Beijing and other cities on and around June 3-4, 19...

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