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Multiple individuals have been detained in Hong Kong as authorities pounce on any effort at public remembrance of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, as China seeks to erase any traces of the atrocity. Discussion of the events of June 4, 1989, when China unleashed troops and tanks on nonviolent demonstrators, is almost prohibited on the Chinese mainland. Until two years ago, when Beijing implemented a national security law to suffocate dissent following massive pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019, semi-autonomous Hong Kong was the only area in China where large-scale remembering was still authorised. Saturday commemorated the 33rd anniversary...
