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The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Friday. June 4, 1999 Families Quietly Mourn Dead From Tiananmen Square Chinese government crackdown keeps lid on public remembranceson 10th anniversaryof demonstrators’ deaths THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Families of people killed in China’s 1989 democracy unknown The government has @ How Many People Died? never given a credible account, to have died The government has been unusually anxious about the anni. commemoration of the bloodshed’s 10th anniversary Thereis nofirm figure on the death toll from China's crackdownon 1989 democracy protests THE GOVERNMENT: Communist officials said four days after the army's June 4, 1989, assault that 300 people, mostly soldiers, died. Months later, the figure was lowered to “more than 200,” including 36 students. “They've been dead 10 years, but the government has given and Chinese residents of Beijing estimated at the time that at protests mourned in private with lighted candles Thursday, while police kept watch on dissidents and reportedly broke up a public them no sympathy. So we are remembering them.’ a mother said but many hundreds are believed versary this year. afraid that dis- sidents could exploit widespread discontent over growing unem- THEWITNESSES: Foreign journalists who visited hospitals ployment and rampant corrup- tion to stir up angerover the 1989 least 1,000 died. A Chinese student group in Germanycited crackdown. State-run media this week repeated President Jiang Zemin's call for “stability above all else. Yin Min, whose19-year-old son was killed in 1989, said she lighted 10 candlesfor the anniversary Chinese Red Cross officials as estimating 3,600 deaths. THE BEREAVED: Somefamilies of people killed in the Crying as she spoke, Su Bingxian said she had lighled three large candles and a small one for her son, Zhao Long. who was killed by three bullets to the chest crackdown and some who were wounded have defied police intimidation to try to gather namesof victims. Their numbers have grown each year. In May, families of 160 dead and 70 survivors filed a lawsuit against government and said other families were doing the same. With public memorials banned, “it’s the only way we when Chinese soldiers attacked the democracy activists. He would have been 31 this year. Police were on heightened alert to guard against public displays of mourning, but most people went about their normal activities. names on a petition demanding the government stop condemning the 1989 protests The Chinese army tack late on June began its at1989, after Universities and Tiananmen seven weeksof protests that had Squarein the heart of Beijing, the center of the 1989 protests. were quiet. A wall at Beijing University that displayed pro-democracy banners a decade ago was hung with posters advertising English drawn as many as 1 million people and Internetclasses In the eastern city of Hangzhou. plain-clothes police broke up a gathering in a park by about 50 people, some wearing white flowers of mourning, the Hong Korg- spurred demonstrations in other cities. Troops and tanks reached the square before dawn on June 4 The numberofpeoplekilled is have to remember him,” she said. 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