Tiananmen security tight on crackdown anniversary

Thursday, June 4, 2009

BEIJING -- Police saturated Tiananmen Square with security today, the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy activists, and an exiled protest leader was blocked from returning home to confront Chinese officials over what he called the "June 4 massacre."

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