A motion urging Beijing to apologize for suppressing the 1989 pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square was on the agenda Wednesday for lawmakers in Hong Kong, where debate over the crackdown has intensified on its 20th anniversary.
The suppression of the student-led protests, in which at least hundreds were killed, remains a taboo topic on the Chinese mainland and Beijing still considers them a "counterrevolutionary" riot.
Hong Kong is one of the few places in China where the events of June 1989 are openly discussed and commemorated because it's a former British colony ruled under a separate political system that promises freedom of speech and …
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