(25 May 2019) Thirty years after the Chinese government crushed a student-led demonstration for democratic reform and against government corruption, a former Associated Press photographer says the country needs to move forward and "come clean on what happened."
Jeff Widener, a former AP photographer and Southeast Asia photo editor, recalled covering the infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square protests Friday.
The legacy of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square looms larger in Hong Kong than in mainland China, where the Communist Party has virtually erased all public mention of it.
"The United States and other European countries have made mistakes throughout history and they've reconciled those problems," Widener said.
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