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  2. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia

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    The incident angered students on campus, where those who were not politically active decided to join the protests. [86] Additionally, a group of workers calling themselves the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation issued two handbills challenging the central leadership. [87] Hu's state funeral took place on 22 April. On the evening of 21 April ...

  3. People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square ...

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    They were dressed in plain clothes and dispatched by a variety of means from Shijingshan on June 2 — on bus, train, subway or on foot — to the Zhongnanhai Compound. [54] From there, the troops then moved into the Great Hall of the People via tunnel. [54] By the night of June 2, over 10,000 troops of the 65th had assembled in the Great Hall ...

  4. The Gate of Heavenly Peace (film) - Wikipedia

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    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.”

  5. 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and ...

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    On 4 April 2019, the fourth of four Sichuan men who were arrested in 2016 for producing a home-made liquor commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre was sentenced to jail for 3 1 ⁄ 2 years. The three other men were also charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", but were instead given suspended sentences.

  6. Dissidents in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

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    On 13 June 1989, the Beijing Public Security Bureau released an order for the arrest of 21 students who they identified as leaders of the protest. [3] [4] These student leaders were part of the Beijing Students Autonomous Federation [3] [4] which had been an instrumental student organization in the Tiananmen Square protests.

  7. Tiananmen Square - Wikipedia

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    Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949; the anniversary of this event is still observed there. [2] The size of Tiananmen Square is 765 x 282 meters (215,730 m 2 or 53.31 acres). [3] It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history.

  8. 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and ...

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    Since 1989, Hong Kong has been the only place on Chinese soil where the Tiananmen Square massacre is publicly commemorated. [4] [5] The 31st anniversary is set against the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic and intense political conflict and civil unrest since June 2019.

  9. 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and ...

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    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.