Tiananmen crackdown victims' families told Don't visit their graves

BEIJING — Chinese authorities are snuffing out any remembrance of the deadly 1989 military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, which happened 37 years ago on Thursday, in a further tightening of a yearslong campaign to erase what happened from public memory. Police told relatives of the victims they would not be allowed to visit a cemetery in the capital Beijing on the crackdown’s anniversary, said a person with knowledge of the matter who spoke on co