China's Hu Jintao moves to burnish his dented reformist credentials
5th Sep 2005, 12:09 GMT
By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING - Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has decided to rehabilitate a predecessor, whose death sparked the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, two well-placed independent sources said, a move that may burnish Hu's dented reformist credentials. The Chinese government has not publicly commemorated the birth or death of Hu Yaobang since he died on April 15, 1989, lest publicity reignite the democratic spark snuffed out on June 4 that year when the army crushed the student-led demonstrations. State media rarely mention his name.
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