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Article: Tiananmen Square massacre stays China's dirty secret
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- The Press
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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As another anniversary of China's crackdown on pro-democracy
protests in Tiananmen Square approaches, the leadership remains in no
mood to talk about it, writes Press political editor COLIN ESPINER
from Beijing.
Tourists gather in huddles around their guides and gawp at the
scale of Tiananmen Square.
From Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall to the huge red walls of the
Forbidden City daubed in paintings of China's most infamous leader,
the vast open space is steeped in often bloody history.
It is cloaked in Beijing smog so thick one can see for only two
city blocks.