Authorities Prevent Families from Honoring Tiananmen Tragedy on 37th Anniversary

Chinese authorities are ensuring that memories of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are extinguished, intensifying efforts to erase public recollection of the tragic event 37 years after it occurred. Families of the victims have been prohibited from visiting a Beijing cemetery to pay respects on the anniversary of the crackdown, a decision enforced by the police, reveals a source speaking under the veil of anonymity out of fear of repercussions. Over the past three decades, the relatives, primarily members of the group Tiananmen Mothers, visited the graves, offering memorial statements while being monitored by the police, as Amnesty International reports….