Chinese honor guard soldiers stand in positionnext to Tiananmen square in Beijing, China Photo: AP
From The Telegraph:
Tiananmen Square was flooded with police on Wednesday, as Beijing prepared for the 20th anniversary of the massacre of hundreds, if not thousands, of students by the Chinese army.
Several hundred police, paramilitaries and other security forces fanned out across the vast square, the symbolic centre of pro-democracy protests in 1989.
Visitors were carefully vetted at checkpoints at entrances to the square, and foreign journalists were barred from entering. Inside the square, plain-clothes and uniformed officers vastly outnumbered a smattering of tourists around the huge portrait of Chairman Mao.
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My Comment: War News Updates will have a complete summary of news on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre tomorrow at 9:00 AM EST. Since I was in China before the massacre, I will also share some of my perceptions and comments of what happened then ... and what is happening now.
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