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Hong Kong Free Press More than three decades after Beijing deployed troops to crush protests in the summer of 1989, authorities are moving to erase Hongkongers’ memories of the Tiananmen Massacre. HKFP rounds up the various moves, which culminated last month in the national security crackdown on the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, 1989 ended months of student-led demonstrations in China. It is estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people died when the People’s Liberation Army was sent in to crack down on protesters in Beijing. Ban…
