Rubio Says ‘We Remember Their Lives and Honor Their Legacy’ on Tiananmen Massacre’s 37th Anniversary

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te called on China to ‘face the wounds of history.’

A lone Chinese man blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace during the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 5, 1989. Jeff Widener/AP Photo

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement to mark the 37th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Tiananmen Square massacre.

“On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square,” Rubio said in a statement late June 3 in the United States, which is hours behind China.