BEIJING — China deployed its vast security apparatus on Wednesday to snuff out commemoration of the suppression of pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square 25-years ago, flooding the streets with police as censors scrubbed the internet clean of any mention of the crackdown.Several governments, including the US, urged China to account for what happened on June 4 1989. The comments riled China, which has said the protest movement was "counterrevolutionary".Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama used the anniversary to call on China to embrace democracy.China has never released a death toll for the crackdown, but estimates from human rights groups and witnesses range from hundreds to several thousand.Troops shot their way into central Beijing after demonstrators clogged Tiananmen Square in Beijing for about six weeks. There were also protests in many other cities.Police, soldiers and plain-clothes security personnel enveloped Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, checking identi...
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