SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that the bloody crackdown on protesters around Beijing's Tiananmen Square 30 years ago was the "correct" decision, citing the country's "stability" since then. It is rare for Chinese government officials to acknowledge the events of June 4, 1989; references to it are heavily censored in China. "Everybody is concerned about Tiananmen after 30 years," Wei said on Sunday. The Tiananmen protests were "political turmoil that the central government needed to quell, which was the correct policy," he said. His comments echoed those of Defence Ministry spokesman Wu Qian, who last week decried the use of the word "suppression" to describe the military's response to the 1989 protests.

Source: The Star June 02, 2019 03:00 UTC