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Taiwan's Lai, Rubio vow to never forget Tiananmen victims
The Freeman
|June 05, 2025
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te vowed Wednesday to preserve the memory of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown 36 years ago, echoing rhetoric by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Chinese troops and tanks forcibly cleared peaceful protesters from Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, after weeks-long demonstrations demanding greater political freedoms.
The exact toll is unknown but hundreds died, with some estimates exceeding 1,000 people.
China's communist rulers have since sought to erase any public mention of the crackdown.
“Authoritarian governments often choose to be silent and forget history; democratic societies choose to preserve the truth and refuse to forget those who have contributed to the ideal of human rights and their dreams,” Lai said in a post on Facebook ahead of an annual vigil in Taipei’s Liberty Square.
This story is from the June 05, 2025 edition of The Freeman.
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