Beijing Posters Protest 1989 Crackdown
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BEIJING — Students at several Beijing universities have defiantly put up posters in memory of those killed in China’s crackdown on a pro-democracy movement two years ago, campus reports said Wednesday.
The posters carried slogans such as “We Will Not Forget June 4” and other anti-government statements.
They were put up after students at Beijing University unfurled posters and passed out leaflets Tuesday in the first such protest in a year.
Students at many campuses have been lectured by university officials and told to behave themselves during the sensitive period around the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown, the reports said.
The student-led mass demonstrations that swept Beijing in 1989 were crushed by army tanks and guns June 3-4 with heavy loss of life.
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