We Remember Their Lives and Honor Their Legacy: Rubio on Tiananmen Massacres 37th Anniversary

A lone Chinese man blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace following the Tiananmen Square Massacre, on June 5, 1989. Jeff Widener/AP PhotoU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement to mark the 37th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Tiananmen Square massacre.“On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square,” Rubio said in a statement late on June 3 in the United States, which is hours behind China.