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<\/a><\/p>\nThe events in Tiananmen square remain a taboo in Chinese society<\/p>\n
The world’s first museum dedicated to the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square has opened in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
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Organisers hope in particular to attract visitors from mainland China.<\/p>\n
The protests are still a taboo topic in mainland China but Hong Kong operates under a more liberal legal system.<\/p>\n
June will see the 25th anniversary of the Chinese army’s violent suppression of the protests, leading to the deaths of hundreds of people.<\/p>\n
The new museum is in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong and has been opened after years of planning and fundraising by pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n
In the past few weeks, the museum itself has become controversial, the BBC’s Juliana Liu reports from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Other occupants of the same building want the museum shut down, citing safety concerns, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n
But the museum’s backers believe these efforts are being orchestrated by Communist Party officials.<\/p>\n
Beijing considers the weeks of peaceful protest by students and workers to have been a “counter-revolutionary” revolt, and defends the decision to send in tanks and troops to end it on 3-4 June 1989.<\/p>\n
The Chinese authorities have never provided an official death toll.<\/p>\n
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