Full Coverage: Tiananmen
On June 4, 1989, Chinese troops stormed through Beijing and into Tiananmen Square to crush a student-led political uprising. An unknown number of people were killed in the clashes. Twenty-five years later, many in China know little about a moment seared into the memories of those who watched from afar.
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Stress kindness, value people, defend sincerity, worship justice, value harmony and seek an ideal world.
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Click the image to watch an animated map of the last hours of the student protests in Beijing 25 years ago
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On June 4, 1989, Chinese Communist Party leaders sent the military into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to clear out the student-led pro-democracy demonstrators who had paralyzed the capital for weeks.
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As government officials continued to stifle any attempts to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on the Chinese mainland, thousands of people held a vigil in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Wednesday in remembrance of the violent crackdown.
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On the 25th anniversary of the crackdown culminating at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the White House on Wednesday called on Chinese authorities to account for those killed, detained or missing in connection with the military assault on pro-democracy demonstrators.
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With Wednesday’s 25th anniversary of China’s crackdown on pro-democracy student protesters fast approaching, authorities are trying to block foreign journalists from reporting about the event and detaining others who seek to commemorate it.
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Show tunes. Confetti. A deck of cards. Rubber ducks. A pornographic video.
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Two prominent Chinese artists are believed to have been detained in China in recent weeks after creating works of art to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Hu Jia is under house arrest again in Bobo Freedom City, his Beijing apartment complex, as he often is come late spring.
