No Tiananmen References

(Fox News) - It is against the law in China for the media to make any reference to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters — which left hundreds or even thousands dead.

Many young people in China have no knowledge of it at all. And so when a young clerk responsible for the classified section in a southwestern Chinese newspaper received an ad referring to the anniversary, she allowed it to be printed.

The ad in the Chengdu Evening News on Monday night, the anniversary of the massacre, read — "Paying tribute to the strong-willed mothers of June 4 victims."

Another Chinese paper reports the woman had never heard of the crackdown — and when she called the man who purchased the ad and questioned him — he said it referred to a mining disaster.