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On the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, President Lai Ching-te and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have issued separate statements calling on Beijing to face its history. Rights groups estimate hundreds or thousands of people died in the 1989 crackdown, which remains heavily censored in China.
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00:00President Lai Qingda is calling on China to face its history on the 37th anniversary of its bloody crackdown on
00:07democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
00:10In a Facebook post, Lai called for reconciliation and dialogue saying that Taiwan would stand by those who pursue freedom
00:17and democracy.
00:18In the U.S., a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that no amount of censorship can erase
00:24the legacy of those who died while exercising their rights.
00:28Rights groups say hundreds if not thousands of people died when Chinese troops opened fire on demonstrators in Beijing in
00:351989.
00:36The event is heavily censored in China and the country has never provided an official death toll.
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