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Article: China remembers Tiananmen: ; In all areas but Hong Kong, security was heavy with some Web sites shut down, CNN blacked out
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- June 5, 2009
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BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the
first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in
the hands of tens of thousands who vented their grief and anger.
Two starkly contrasting faces of China were on display Thursday,
the 20th anniversary of the military's bloody crackdown on pro-
democracy demonstrators - from Beijing's rigid control in
suppressing any dissent, to freewheeling Hong Kong, which enjoys
freedoms all but absent on the mainland.
Tiananmen Square was blanketed by uniformed and plainclothes
security officers who were ready to silence any potential
demonstration, and there were few hints that the vast plaza was the
epicenter of a ...