On the 35th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square, China has heightened security measures to prevent any public remembrance of the event. Checkpoints and police vehicles lined the roads leading to the square, reflecting the government's efforts to suppress any discussion or commemoration of the incident.
The Chinese government's crackdown in 1989 saw an estimated 180,000 troops and armed police using tanks and armored vehicles to quell the protests, resulting in an unknown death toll that could be in the hundreds or thousands. To this day, any mention of the event is heavily censored in China, with social media posts related to Tiananmen Square being swiftly deleted.
