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Tiananmen mothers won’t let memory of their dead fade (Reuters)

Posted by Yahoo! News: World News at 1 June , 2009

A Chinese woman poses for a relative taking her photograph at Beijing's Tiananmen Square June 1, 2009. The Chinese government's refusal to release an official figure for the number killed on June 4, 1989, is symbolic of its larger silence about the crackdown on student protesters. China's economy is now the third-largest in the world, an achievement that would have been unthinkable during the impoverished 1980s. But political reform has stalled, with the Party quick to stamp out any perceived challenge. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - Twenty years after her teenage son was shot by troops near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Zhang Xianling is still trying to work out how many others died with him.


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