Hundreds if not thousands of unarmed protesters and onlookers were killed late on June 3 and 4, 1989, after China’s communist leaders ordered the military to retake Tiananmen Square from student-led demonstrators. Commemoration of the events, whether public or private, remains taboo in mainland China.

First published in the June 04, 2017, 4:49 p.m. edition

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