06/05/2006: Tiananmen Massacre
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Tiananmen Massacre vigil
Tens of thousands at vigil
Seventeen years after their children were slain or disappeared, the tightly monitored Tiananmen Mothers group presumably grieved privately Sunday, while in Hong Kong 44,000 people, according to organizers, gathered for a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to give grief a public voice in remembrance of the June 4, 1989, massacre
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Quietly, Chinese remember Tiananmen
Chinese police tore up a protester's poster and detained at least two people on Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sunday as the country marked 17 years since local troops crushed a pro-democracy demonstration in the public space.
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About the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, June 4th Incident, or the Political Turmoil between Spring and Summer of 1989 by the Chinese government, were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals and labour activists in the People's Republic of China between April 15, 1989 and June 4, 1989, leaving (according to Chinese authorities) between 400 and 800 civilians dead, and between 7,000 and 10,000 injured. An initial report from local hospitals put the number at around 2,000 dead.
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Beijing, June 4th 1989: Blood, Death, Chaos and Not that One Photo.
We love that photo because for a very short moment in time, we were able to witness a nameless every man who had enough human bravery to stand up against the machinery of death and the power of a repressive government. And for the sake of perfection, on the other end, we had a tank driver who did not keep going because his heart also did not allow the metal he was in control of to do the deed. But that is not what happened in the early mornings of June 4th 1989. Human bravery did not triumph against the machinery of death, when the bullets hit soft flesh, no amount of will could stop its outcome.
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CNN Video of pro democracy man versus Chinese government tank convoy
CNN video of Tianamen Chaos
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On this Day in 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square
Several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic uprising in Peking's (Beijing) Tiananmen Square.
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Tianamen Massacre photo series
More Tianamen Massacre photos
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