
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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, …
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 …
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...
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 …
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 …