Censorship, silence and time have created a gulf between the young people who witnessed the Tiananmen crackdown 30 years ago and those who came after them.

Generation Amnesia: why China’s youth don’t talk about Tiananmen

Three decades have passed since the Tiananmen Square crackdown when troops fired on student-led pro-democracy protesters
The shots were heard around the country and reverberate today despite persistent official censorship of the event

Topic | Tiananmen Square crackdown 30th anniversary

Mimi Lau and Phoebe Zhang

Published: 10:38pm, 26 May, 2019

Updated: 6:32pm, 3 Jun, 2019

Censorship, silence and time have created a gulf between the young people who witnessed the Tiananmen crackdown 30 years ago and those who came after them.

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Mimi Lau

Mimi Lau covers human rights, religion and civil society in China. She spent seven years in southern China as the Post's Guangzhou Correspondent before returning to Hong Kong in 2017. Today, Mimi continues to pursue stories across the country, monitoring and reporting on key political and civil issues. She has won numerous awards for her work.

Phoebe Zhang

Phoebe Zhang is a society reporter with the South China Morning Post. She likes to write human-interest stories and has written many about people living on the fringes of society. She believes there's no story or person that's too small.