newspaper and have no idea what happened on June 4, 1989:
"A newspaper in southwest China has fired three of its editors over
an advertisement saluting mothers of protesters killed in the 1989
Tiananmen Square crackdown, a source with knowledge of the gaffe said on
Thursday....
Li Zhaojun, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chengdu Evening News in
Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu, and two other members of the
tabloid's editorial office had been dismissed, the source told Reuters
requesting anonymity...
On the 18th anniversary of the crackdown on Monday, the lower right
corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News ran a tiny ad reading:
'Paying tribute to the strong[-willed] mothers of June 4 victims.'...
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said on Wednesday a young female
clerk allowed the tribute to be published because she had never heard of
the crackdown....
She phoned back the person who placed the ad to ask what June 4 meant
and he told her it was the date of a mining disaster, the Post said.
It was unclear if the man who placed the advertisement had been
arrested.
The man also tried to place the same advertisement with two other
Chengdu newspapers, the source said.
'Staff at the other two newspapers also did not know what June 4 was,
but they phoned and asked their superiors and he walked away,' the
source told Reuters.
The Communist Party has banned references to the crackdown in state
media, the Internet and books as part of a whitewash campaign, meaning
most young Chinese are ignorant of the events...."
Reuters in The Globe and Mail, June 7, 2007
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