Beijing, June 4 (EFE).- Thirty-seven years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown, calls for truth, accountability, and official recognition of the events of June 1989 echoed again, while Chinese authorities maintained their longstanding silence on one of the country’s most politically sensitive subjects.
Public discussion of the anniversary remains heavily censored in mainland China, but voices within and beyond the Chinese-speaking world used the occasion to demand justice and a full accounting of what happened.
Beijing, however, reiterated its position that the matter was resolved long ago and rejected calls to revisit the events after victims’ relatives, human rights groups, and political leaders in Taiwan and Hong Kong renewed their demands for truth.
Memory Against Silence
The Tiananmen Mothers, a group made up of relatives of those killed in the 1989 military crackdown, urged Chinese authorities to disclose the true number of people who died, were injured, or disappeared during the unrest.
