Tiananmen Square, 1989
•June 3-4, 1989
•Democracy movements had grown in strength since the arrival of Deng
•May 4 1989 they have mass rallies in honour of the 70th anniversary of the last major democratic uprising
•Many students remain and start a hunger strike
•Li Peng took a harsh stance on this and ordered the PLA to take whatever action necessary
•Army arrives in early June and are reluctant to deal with the crowd•3 June they broke into the square and opened fire
•400-800 people killed, many were not students and many killed on streets outside of the square
•Reaffirmed China’s hardline on party dissent and public freedoms
•However economic changes were irreversible and 1992 Deng ended price controls
•Democracy movements had grown in strength since the arrival of Deng
•May 4 1989 they have mass rallies in honour of the 70th anniversary of the last major democratic uprising
•Many students remain and start a hunger strike
•Li Peng took a harsh stance on this and ordered the PLA to take whatever action necessary
•Army arrives in early June and are reluctant to deal with the crowd•3 June they broke into the square and opened fire
•400-800 people killed, many were not students and many killed on streets outside of the square
•Reaffirmed China’s hardline on party dissent and public freedoms
•However economic changes were irreversible and 1992 Deng ended price controls
The Mystery of ‘Tank Man’
•Never in World history has a single image captured a struggle quite so well
•Rumoured to have been named Wang Weilin, a 19 year old student
•He has been rumoured also to have been shot, imprisoned and never found and still free in hiding
•In an 1992 interview with Barbara Walters then General Secretary Jiang Zemin stated “I think never killed”
•Rumoured to have been named Wang Weilin, a 19 year old student
•He has been rumoured also to have been shot, imprisoned and never found and still free in hiding
•In an 1992 interview with Barbara Walters then General Secretary Jiang Zemin stated “I think never killed”
To the mystery tank man, where you trying to make a point or did it just kind of happen that you decided to go in front of the line of tanks?
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Szeto Wah By Liam FitzpatrickJanuary 06, 2011
It's only in movies that you're supposed to come across grizzled old fighters on their deathbeds, devoting their last breaths to stirring incitements
Szeto Wah By Liam FitzpatrickJanuary 06, 2011
It's only in movies that you're supposed to come across grizzled old fighters on their deathbeds, devoting their last breaths to stirring incitements
The Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989 was huge in the Chinese history, near 800 people died. The picture capture with the mystery tank man is the most powerful picture of all time.