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Police warn families of Tiananmen crackdown dead not to visit graves on 37th anniversary

Published: 6/4/2026, 4:48:51 PM 1 source(s)
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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. Newsiline summarises this report from PBS NewsHour Headlines and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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