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In Photos: 34th anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing

Updated On: 31 May, 2023 12:07 PM IST | Editor

A demostration led by students in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 saw it all; millitarty-led crackdown, agitation and even bloiddshed. Tiananmen Square Massacre, also known as June Fourth Massacre occured when "troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square." The agitations began on 15 April and were forcibly suppressed on 4 June when Chinese government sent the People's Liberation Army to occupy parts of central Beijing. The clashes led to widspread violence, the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more injured. Here's look into the incident in visuals! All pictures: AFP

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Workers sit in a bulldozer shovel as they shout slogans in front of the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 25, 1989, during a rally to support the student pro-democracy protests.

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Workers sit in a bulldozer shovel as they shout slogans in front of the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 25, 1989, during a rally to support the student pro-democracy protests.
A young man with his fist raised uses a loudspeaker to address pro-democracy protesters gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

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A young man with his fist raised uses a loudspeaker to address pro-democracy protesters gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

 A dissident student (L) asks soldiers to go back home ahead of the army's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 3, 1989.

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 A dissident student (L) asks soldiers to go back home ahead of the army's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 3, 1989.

Pro-democracy protesters set an armoured personnel carrier on fire during a crackdown by authorities on the demonstrations near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989.

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Pro-democracy protesters set an armoured personnel carrier on fire during a crackdown by authorities on the demonstrations near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989.

People gather in Tiananmen Square around a 10-metre replica of the Statue of Liberty (C), called the Goddess of Democracy, demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing on June 2, 1989.

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People gather in Tiananmen Square around a 10-metre replica of the Statue of Liberty (C), called the Goddess of Democracy, demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing on June 2, 1989.

 A woman wounded during a clash between the army and students holding pro-democracy protests is carried on a cart near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989.

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 A woman wounded during a clash between the army and students holding pro-democracy protests is carried on a cart near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989.

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