Voices heard on Tiananmen Square date

June 03, 2009 Radio Free Asia's recent series of local-language broadcasts and call-in shows titled "Remembering June 4" offers shortwave radio listeners around China an alternate perspective on the outcome of the student-led democracy movement in Beijing in the spring of 1989. To prevent cracks in the official line that the events of two decades ago were a "counter-revolutionary" conspiracy, Communist Party censors this week blocked Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr among other Web-based communications services and blacked out foreign TV news about the Tiananmen anniversary. Established in 1996, it's probably fair to say that RFA's Chinese service is by now severely disliked by the government in Beijing.

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