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Olympics dominates scene at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on crackdown anniversary
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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BEIJING Security forces kept a close watch on Beijing's Tiananmen Square during today's anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, amid renewed calls for the release of political prisoners ahead of this year's Beijing Summer Olympics. (article 3)
Exiled dissidents and human rights groups have sought to link the two events, saying releasing political prisoners and allowing exiled student leaders to return would burnish the Communist government's image before the Olympic spotlight turns on Beijing. (article 3)
Plainclothes officers used handheld video cameras to supplement the dozens of permanent mounted cameras trained on the square. (article 3)
" Despite being awarded the Olympics, the Chinese communist government has by far not improved its human rights record Lee Chuek-Yan, a lawmaker and pro-democracy activist, told demonstrators, estimated by organizers at around 48,000. (article 3)
BEIJING, June 4 - The most senior Chinese official jailed for sympathising with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has urged the leadership to come clean on why the pro-democracy movement was crushed. (article 4)
The demonstrations that drew more than a million people on to Beijing's streets ended in a military crackdown on June 4 of that year. (article 4)
Now a fading memory - or no memory at all for young people - the massacre is still taboo in the Chinese media. (article 4)
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Source articles
- An Olympic Amnesty (Washington Post, 06/03/2008, 713 words)
- ABC News: Calls For Release of Tiananmen Prisoners (ABCNews, 06/03/2008, 313 words)
- Olympics dominates scene at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on crackdown anniversary (L.A. Times, 06/04/2008, 579 words)
- China urged to come clean on Tiananmen (ft.com, 06/04/2008, 704 words)
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