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At the 30th anniversary of the 4 June Incident, Wei Fenghe, a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said in the Shangri-La Dialogue: "The 4 June Incident was a turmoil and unrest. The Central Government took decisive measures to calm the unrest and stop the turmoil, and it is because of this decision that the stability within the ...
Official source states the death toll between 10–20, but other estimates range from dozens to hundreds. [88] 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre: 1989, 4 June Tiananmen Square, Beijing 200–10,000 [89] [90] Between 200 and 10,000 civilians were killed.
In the spring of 1989, massive pro-democracy demonstrations broke out in Beijing and other Chinese cities. On June 3 to 4, 1989, by the order of the Chinese government, heavily armed soldiers set their aim on the demonstrators in Beijing, killing and wounding thousands of them. The crackdown is known as the June 4th Massacre.
In 1990, on the first anniversary of the massacre, Reuters quoted an estimate of 15,000 people who took part in the demonstration. Organizers from the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Democracy in China (also known as Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China) provided an estimate of 30,000.
When ordered to enter the city on June 3, the 28th encountered protesting residents along route but did not open fire and missed the deadline to reach Tiananmen Square by 5:30 a.m. on June 4. [87] At 7:00am, the 28th Army ran into a throng of angry residents at Muxidi on West Chang'an Avenue west of the square. [ 87 ]
Due to the severe censorship, most of the younger generation in China, such as Chinese university students, are totally ignorant of the protests in 1989 and the government crackdown on 4 June 1989. Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , caricatured this by saying that young Chinese thought that ' Tank Man ' was ...
The 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests featured events in China and elsewhere on, and leading up to, 4 June 2021 – to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, in which the government of China ordered the army to fire on protestors, killing hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
The 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was principally events that occurred in China and elsewhere on and leading up to 4 June 2020 – to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, in which thousands of people are widely believed to have been killed.