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There was heightened security around Beijing's Tiananmen Square Saturday, anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown, while police in Hong Kong warned people not to gather as China strives to remove all reminders of the events of June 4. Discussion of the crackdown is highly sensitive to China's communist leadership. On June 4, 1989, the government sent troops and tanks to break up peaceful protests, crushing a weeks-long wave of demonstrations calling for political change and curbs on official corruption. On Saturday, authorities in Beijing had set up facial recognition devices at roads leading to the square and stopped passersby to...
