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  1. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia

    After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 …

  2. Tiananmen Square incident - Encyclopedia Britannica

    Dec 10, 2025 · The Tiananmen Square incident was a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on June 3–4 with a government crackdown on demonstrators in …

  3. Tiananmen Square Protests: 1989, Massacre & Tank Man | HISTORY

    May 31, 2019 · The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations in 1989 calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China.

  4. The Tiananmen Square Massacre - Background and Causes

    Jun 2, 2008 · In 1989, the Chinese government cracked down on protests in Tiananmen Square killing between 250 and 7,000 people in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

  5. What is the Tiananmen crackdown? - Amnesty International

    May 30, 2025 · In April 1989, university students in Beijing gathered in Tiananmen Square to draw up a list of demands broadly centred on political and economic reforms, but also including calls for an end …

  6. What really happened in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

    The official line is that "nothing happened in Tinanmen Square". But pictures like the iconic Tank Man tell a different story: a story of human rights violations against peaceful protestors. On June 1989, …

  7. Subject Guides: '89 Democracy Movement: Tiananmen Square Incident

    Nov 20, 2025 · Tiananmen Square incident, also called June Fourth incident or 6/4, series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3-4 with a …

  8. How a peaceful protest at Tiananmen Square turned into a massacre

    Its name means “gate of heavenly peace,” but in 1989 the iconic gate at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square overlooked a scene that was anything but peaceful. Earlier that year, the square had been...

  9. Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? - BBC

    Dec 23, 2021 · In 1989 Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus for large-scale protests, which were crushed by China's Communist rulers. The events produced one of the most iconic photos of …

  10. From Tiananmen Square to China's Most Wanted - thefire.org

    Thirty five years ago, on June 4, 1989, the Chinese government brutally crushed the protests in Tiananmen Square. Zhou Fengsuo, a Tiananmen student leader whose activism landed him on …