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The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, [1] [2] [a] were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
The Tiananmen Square incident was a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on June 3–4 with a government crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
At 1 a.m. on June 4, Chinese soldiers and police stormed Tiananmen Square, firing live rounds into the crowd. Although thousands of protesters simply tried to escape, others fought back,...
In 1989 Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus for large-scale protests, which were crushed by China's Communist rulers. The events produced one of the most iconic photos of the 20th Century...
nese leader, during a visit to Japan - April 15, 1989. (Soka Gakkai News, May 1989) The death, on April 15, of Hu Yaobang, Chairman of the CCP until 1987, triggers spontaneous daily student demonstra-tions in Tiananmen Square. Class disruptions at all universi-ties, except three CCP cadres schools, are accompanied by
The demonstrations began on April 15, when Chinese students gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where so many student and mass demonstrations had taken place since the early 20th century, to mark the death of the popular pro-reform Chinese leader Hu Yaobang.
What really happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989? It has been over 33 years since hundreds if not thousands of unarmed peaceful pro-democracy protesters were killed in Beijing and the arrest of tens of thousands of demonstrators in cities across China.
Square incident was a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on June 3–4 with a government crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Tiananmen Square: What happened in the
They were the men and women stationed at Australia's embassy in Beijing, who saw the very best and the very worst of human behavior. 25 years later, Australia's eye-witnesses to that dark chapter tell how they hid from gunfire, harbored and helped key targets, and smuggled media footage out of China." more... Ed.
Several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic protest in Peking's (Beijing) Tiananmen Square. Tanks rumbled through...