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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 ...
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On June 4, 2009, in connection with the 20th anniversary of the protests, Associated Press reporter Terril Jones revealed a photo he had taken showing the Tank Man from ground level, a different angle from all of the other known photos of the Tank Man. Jones wrote that he was not aware of what he had captured until a month later when printing ...
Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division stormed Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Arthur Sasse reportedly asked Albert Einstein for a photo as he left his 72nd birthday celebration.
To commemorate the anniversary, a group of foreign and local journalists who had covered the 1989 Tiananmen movement in Beijing produced a series of interviews in a collective work entitled: "I am a journalist: My June 4 story". Foreign journalists who were in Beijing in 1989 spoke about the profound impact the experience had on them. [23]
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. To memorialize the events of 1989, a June 4th Museum was established in Hong Kong in 2012.
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 ]
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. [2] [3]