Photos: Tiananmen Square remembered
On June 4, 1989, Chinese Communist Party leaders sent the military into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to clear out the student-led pro-democracy demonstrators who had paralyzed the capital for weeks. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people died in the crackdown.
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