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06-04-2014, 09:11 AM
In Pictures, Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre
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Twenty-five years ago on Wednesday, the Chinese government, acting under martial law, deployed 200,000 troops into Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
For seven weeks, pro-democracy protesters — many of whom were students — occupied the square. They called for freedom of the press and government accountability, among other goals, according to The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/06/slide-show-tiananmen.html#slide_ss_0=1). The Chinese government's decision to forcefully remove protesters was bloody, resulting in the deaths of between 500 and 2,500 people
See also: China Blocks Google to Silence Tiananmen Square Discussion (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/china-blocks-google-tiananmen-square/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
While tanks rolled in to Tiananmen Square, photojournalist Stuart Franklin documented history from his hotel balcony, according to his first-person account in The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2014/jun/03/stuart-franklin-tiananmen-square-tank-man). Franklin's iconic photograph, "Tank Man," was reproduced around the world Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/tiananmen-square-massacre-photos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Twenty-five years ago on Wednesday, the Chinese government, acting under martial law, deployed 200,000 troops into Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
For seven weeks, pro-democracy protesters — many of whom were students — occupied the square. They called for freedom of the press and government accountability, among other goals, according to The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/06/slide-show-tiananmen.html#slide_ss_0=1). The Chinese government's decision to forcefully remove protesters was bloody, resulting in the deaths of between 500 and 2,500 people
See also: China Blocks Google to Silence Tiananmen Square Discussion (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/china-blocks-google-tiananmen-square/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
While tanks rolled in to Tiananmen Square, photojournalist Stuart Franklin documented history from his hotel balcony, according to his first-person account in The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2014/jun/03/stuart-franklin-tiananmen-square-tank-man). Franklin's iconic photograph, "Tank Man," was reproduced around the world Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/tiananmen-square-massacre-photos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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