China bars Tiananmen victims’ families from cemetery visit on crackdown anniversary
The restriction halted a decadeslong memorial tradition maintained by relatives seeking accountability for the 1989 military crackdown.
One of mainland China’s last surviving rituals of Tiananmen remembrance did not take place this year. Relatives of people killed during the 1989 crackdown said authorities barred them from visiting Wan’an Cemetery in Beijing, where several victims are buried, on the 37th anniversary of the military operation. For decades, …
