China blocks attempts to mark Tiananmen anniversary
It is 20 years since China's brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square which saw an unknown number of civilians killed. Thousands of students sat in China's Tiananmen Square not knowing that their six-week long protest would come to a violent end that night.
Troops had been brought in from outside Beijing because the local soldiers could not be relied on to shoot down the country's best and brightest - especially people they knew.
The Government is hoping that this will be a non-event, but has tightened security in and around Tiananmen Square.
It also hopes that the solid economic growth delivered over the past 30 years means that most people are now of a mood not to upset the status quo by protesting in the street.
International news reports about this anniversary, like those from the BBC and Voice of America, are being blocked in China and the authorities
have denied foreign reporters access to Tiananmen Square.
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