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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

China's Tiananmen generation speaks

China drew worldwide condemnation for brutally quashing a student uprising in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989. But in the months and years that followed, the incident has remained largely unmentioned inside China, at least in public.

Here people born in the years around the crackdown talk frankly about their knowledge of the event and how they were taught about it.

More from the BBC here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8061483.stm

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