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The Great Forgetting: How China erased the Tiananmen Square massacre

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The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Abby Hauslohner reports that Border Patrol often holds unaccompanied minors for far longer than is legal. How the government erased the Tiananmen Square massacre from memory in China. And book critic Ron Charles on breaking the rules of summer reading.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the newsroom on the Washington Post.

0:05.0

Hi there is the mayor in Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.

0:09.0

Hey it's Dossie, I want to pick your brain on the phone.

0:11.0

Hi, my name is Jenna Johnson.

0:13.0

I'm a host of reports.

0:15.0

I'm Martin Powers.

0:19.0

It's Friday, May 31st.

0:22.0

Today, what happens to kids who cross the border on their own?

0:28.0

China or race the Tiananmen Square massacre and a summer reading declaration.

0:35.0

We went out with border patrol, did sort of a ride along with them for several hours.

0:45.0

Hey how many bodies are you holding?

0:48.0

It's like good draper for this family.

0:51.0

Abigail House loner covers immigration for the post.

0:54.0

She reported this week from McCall in Texas.

0:57.0

One of the southernmost points on the US Mexico border.

1:00.0

We set out while it was still pitch black in the sky.

1:03.0

The sun hadn't even started to rise yet and we headed out with them.

1:07.0

And the border patrol radio chatter was already up and going.

1:12.0

We only had two that we saw, we saw two runners and people spotted here, people spotted there, you know, all over the place.

1:22.0

She came out of the side of the driver's side and then the other gentleman was wearing blue shirt.

1:29.0

The very first group we came to responding to some of the radio chatter was a group of 100 people, more than 100 people.

1:37.0

And it was entirely families, small children, you know, so the kids actually outnumbered the adults.

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