It has grown faster, smarter and increasingly invisible, quietly erasing the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre from public view.

Thirty-six years on, Beijing still has not disclosed the official death toll of the bloody crackdown on a pro-democracy gathering on June 4, when more than 1 million protesters were in the square.

Historians estimate that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) killed anywhere from 200 to several thousand people that day.

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    4 days ago

    Maybe because they don’t want deranged westerners ranting about their political grudges in a video game chat?