By VOA News
03 June 2009
Chinese security forces have boosted their presence in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on the eve of the 20th anniversary of a crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
Chinese plainclothes police and paramilitary forces swarmed around the square Wednesday, examining visitors at checkpoints and barring access to journalists.
China's Communist government sent tanks and troops into Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 to crush weeks of student and worker protests. Hundreds and possibly thousands of demonstrators were killed.
Several leading Chinese dissidents told Western news media by telephone that authorities were confining them to their homes or had forced them to leave Beijing.
Authorities in Macau detained one of the main student leaders of the 1989 protests, Wu'er Kaixi, when he arrived Wednesday in the southern Chinese territory on a flight from Taipei.
Wu'er said he wanted to enter mainland China so that he could see his parents. But, he said Macau immigration officials refused to let him enter the territory and asked him to return to Taiwan, where he lives in exile.
China's government also has blocked Internet forums, social networking Web sites and foreign media reports to try to prevent discussion of the Tiananmen anniversary.
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