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Remembering Tiananmen

Nury Vittachi
Jun 04, 2014
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TODAY IS A BAD WORD. No, really.

Over the years, I have fought several editors who have thought the term “June 4” was a term which was too controversial and shocking to print, just like, say, the phrase “I like Justin Bieber”.

Twenty-five years ago on this date the newspaper for which I worked in Hong Kong received lots of weeping eye-witness reports abou…

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