Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Ex-government spokesman who denied Tiananmen deaths dead at 90

A former Communist propaganda official, Yuan defended the Chinese government after soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) fired on unarmed pro-democracy protestors in 1989. Reports of Yuan's death have been unusually muted in China's official media. The Paper, a state-linked newspaper, last week put up an article with a memorial service notice but quickly removed it.

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