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Marco Rubio’s Statement Following The 37th Anniversary Of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Todd Crawford
By Todd Crawford
Published: June 6, 2026
Some of the victims of the June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre. (Image: Chinese Human Rights Twitter account)

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a written statement on June 3, 2026, marking the 37th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China.

“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. Chinese students, workers, and other civilians who lost their lives had gathered to exercise their natural rights and demand democratic reforms and accountability for corruption. We remember their lives and honor their legacy. No amount of censorship can erase the past. Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday.”

April 22, 1989. Students gather at Tiananmen Square to pay tribute to Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded Communist Party official whose death in April 1989 triggered the pro-democracy movement that the Party would crush six weeks later with tanks and live fire. (Image: CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP via Getty Images)