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The Chinese government continues to forbid discussions about the Tiananmen Square protests [315] [316] and has taken measures to block or censor related information, in an attempt to suppress the public's memory of the Tiananmen Square protests. [2] Textbooks contain little, if any, information about the protests. [317]
China still gets annoyed with images showing the famous Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man,’ 30 years after he became a symbol of the government’s brutality Archived June 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine; Raw video of the Tank Man incident (CNN on YouTube) The Stuart Franklin photo at Life magazine 100 photos that changed the world.
June 4, 2021 was the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests in Hong Kong. Naturally, more people than usual would look up pictures from the 1989 protests on that day. And, of course ...
During the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 a group of protestors, among them Yu Dongyue, vandalised the portrait of Mao Zedong by throwing eggs at it. Yu was sentenced to life imprisonment but was released on bail 17 years later in 2006. [5] [6] In May 2007, the portrait of Mao caught fire, damaging about 15% of the portrait.
The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre remains one of the most sensitive political taboos in mainland China. Discussions of the event are strictly censored and any attempt to commemorate it can lead ...
The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a three-hour documentary film about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, which culminated in the violent government crackdown on June 4.The film uses archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens, including workers, students, intellectuals, and government officials, to revisit the events of “Beijing Spring.”
China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead ...
In 1989, Tiananmen Square was the site of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests that culminated in violence and a crackdown by the People's Liberation Army. [13] [14] Following the crackdown, many of the student leaders escaped to the United States with the help of foreign intelligence agencies and other parties through Operation Yellowbird. [15]