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Police warn families of Tiananmen crackdown dead not to visit graves on 37th anniversary
Chinese authorities are snuffing out any remembrance of the deadly 1989 military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, which happened 37 years ago Thursday, in a further tightening in a yearslong campaign to erase what happened from public memory.
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According to PBS News’s source item, Police warn families of Tiananmen crackdown dead not to visit graves on 37th anniversary, Chinese authorities are snuffing out any remembrance of the deadly 1989 military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, which happened 37 years ago Thursday, in a further tightening in a yearslong campaign to erase what happened from public memory.
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- Police warn families of Tiananmen crackdown dead not to visit graves on 37th anniversaryPBS News - 2026-06-04T16:48:51+00:00
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