I put this up a little late today , should have had it up first thing this morning ! A lack of sleep and odd work hours play havoc on your mind !
But for the people of china that is nothing compared to what they have to live through ! Hopefully one day the citizens of China will be able to rise up again without being slaughtered or thrown in Labor camps never to be heard from again !
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China smothered Tiananmen Square with police on Thursday to prevent commemoration of the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters 20 years ago and the United States demanded Beijing account for those killed.
Tanks rolled into the square before dawn on June 4, 1989, to crush weeks of student and worker protests. The ruling Communist Party has never released a death toll and fears any public marking of the crackdown could undermine its hold on power.
But some people came quietly to the square to mourn.
"Today is June 4, so we came here to commemorate it," said a man surnamed Wang.
Tens of thousands in China-ruled Hong Kong attended a candlelight vigil on Thursday night to mark the anniversary.
Organizers estimated a record 150,000 people had attended, as crowds overspilled from six football pitches in a downtown park.
"In 20 years, the knot of June 4 has not been untied," said Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, one of the organizers.
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