Tiananmen ad slip past censors

[MODU]

"Young clerk let Tiananmen ad slip past censors: paper"

A young clerk with no knowledge of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown allowed a tribute to victims slip into the classified ads page of a newspaper in southwest China, a Hong Kong daily reported on Wednesday.

The tiny ad in the lower right corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News on Monday night, read: "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims".

An investigation was launched by Chinese authorities to find out how the advertisement slipped its way past censors.

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References to the massacre are barred in state media, the Internet and printed works, meaning many of China's younger generation are ignorant of the events.

[GMantis]

The irony is that it wouldn't have happened if people were informed about the tiananmen events.

[MODU]

It's hard to believe that it has been 18 years ago already.  I remember those few days very well.