The London mayor Ken Livingstone is currently visiting Beijing, host city for the 2008 Olympic Games, to build trade and tourism links between the two Olympic cities (London being the host city for the 2012 Olympics).
When asked by a British reporter if the 1989 Tiananmen massacre was forgiveable, Livingstone responded "I didn't come here to talk about an event that happened 20 years ago in their politics, certainly not in a week following the publication of terrible pictures of communists who had been tortured and beaten and starved by the British state machinery in the aftermath of the second world war."
But his suggestion that it was time for visiting politicians to move beyond discussions of the killings in 1989 has angered the families of the victims, who have relied on foreign governments to support an issue that is still taboo for the Chinese media.
I'm not surprised these families are angry. So here's a pictorial reminder to my mayor why Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 should NEVER be forgotten.
Livingstone gaffe angers human rights groups on visit to China
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