Tiannamen Square, 1989
-June 3-4 1989
-Democracy movements had grown in strength since the arrival of Deng
-May 1989 they have mass rallies in honor 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, may were not students and many killed on the streets outside of the square
-Reaffirmed China's hard-line on party dissent and public freedoms
-However economic changes were irreversible and 1992 Deng ended price controls
-Never in world history has an image captured a struggle quite so well
-Rumoured to have been a student named Wang Weilin, a 19 year old student
-He has rumoured to also have been shot, imprisoned and nver found and still free in hiding
-In a 1992 interiew with Barabara Walters then General Secretary Jiang Zemin stated "I think never killed"
-Democracy movements had grown in strength since the arrival of Deng
-May 1989 they have mass rallies in honor 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, may were not students and many killed on the streets outside of the square
-Reaffirmed China's hard-line on party dissent and public freedoms
-However economic changes were irreversible and 1992 Deng ended price controls
-Never in world history has an image captured a struggle quite so well
-Rumoured to have been a student named Wang Weilin, a 19 year old student
-He has rumoured to also have been shot, imprisoned and nver found and still free in hiding
-In a 1992 interiew with Barabara Walters then General Secretary Jiang Zemin stated "I think never killed"
summary
Tienanmen square massacre was a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tienanmen Square in Beijing. Although the demonstrations and their subsequent repression occurred in cities throughout the country, the events in Beijing—and especially in Tienanmen Square, historically linked to such other protests as the May Fourth Movement (1919)—came to symbolize the entire incident.