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Taiwan President Vows To Remember Tiananmen Crackdown

The Tiananmen crackdown killed hundreds or people, with some estimating the death toll was higher than a thousand (Credit: AFP)

Taiwan's new President Lai Ching-te said Tuesday that the memory of Beijing's deadly crackdown at Tiananmen Square "will not disappear in the torrent of history", in a post marking the event's 35th anniversary.

Chinese troops and tanks forcibly dispersed peaceful protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, brutally quelling huge, weeks-long demonstrations demanding greater political freedoms.

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