Tiananmen Mothers condemn China president

BEIJING: More than 100 people whose relatives were killed in China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown hit out at the country’s new President Xi Jinping in an open letter, days ahead of the anniversary of the deaths.

The Tiananmen Mothers group has for decades called on China’s leaders to reverse their verdict on the 1989 prodemocracy protests in Beijing, when troops killed hundreds of protesters labeled as “counterrevolutionary.”