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In English, the terms "Tiananmen Square Massacre", "Tiananmen Square Protests", and "Tiananmen Square Crackdown" are often used to describe the series of events. However, much of the violence in Beijing did not actually happen in Tiananmen, but outside the square along a stretch of Chang'an Avenue only a few miles long, and especially near the ...
On June 4, 2021, the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft's Bing search engine worldwide. Hours after Microsoft acknowledged the issue, the search returned only pictures of tanks elsewhere in the world.
Charlie Cole (February 28, 1955 – September 5, 2019) [1] [2] [3] was an American photojournalist, one of the five photographers who captured the iconic image of the Tank Man during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. [4] Cole was born in 1955 in Bonham, Texas, United States.
Jeff Widener's iconic "Tank Man" photo on June 5, 1989, showing an unidentified man standing in front of a column of tanks after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, China. - Jeff Widener/AP
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.”
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.
Bing showed no images when users searched "tank man" amid the Chinese government's crackdown on vigils honoring those killed during the 1989 protests.
Students at the University of Hong Kong gathered on June 4 to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.This clip, posted on Twitter by Jennifer Wang, shows students ...