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

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

Chinese authorities are intensifying efforts to erase the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown

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

BEIJING — 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 (June 4), in a further tightening of a yearslong campaign to erase what happened from public memory.Police told relatives of the victims they would not be allowed to visit a cemetery in...