Remembering Tiananmen, 20 years later

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Remembering Tiananmen, 20 years later

Yesterday, June 4th, 2009, marked the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on student protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Beginning in April of 1989, thousands of students and other citizens started gathering in groups large and small, protesting many issues, centered on a desire for freedom and democratic reform. By mid-May of 1989, hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied the square, staging hunger strikes, and asking for dialogue. Chinese authorities responded with a declaration of martial law, and sent soldiers and tanks from the People's Liberation Army, preparing to disperse the crowds. Late on June 3rd, 1989, the tanks and armored personnel carriers rolled into the square, killing and wounding many, mostly civilians - estimates vary widely, from several hundred to several thousand dead. The first 17 photos below were taken in 1989, the rest are from this year, as people remember the events, the ideals, and the fallout from that fateful day. (32 photos total)

This file photo taken twenty years ago on June 2, 1989 shows some of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese gathering around a 10-meter replica of the Statue of Liberty (center), called the Goddess of Democracy, in Tiananmen Square demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of protesters were killed by China's military on June 3 and 4, 1989, as communist leaders ordered an end to six weeks of unprecedented democracy protests in the heart of the Chinese capital. (CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images)


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This file photo taken on June 3, 1989 shows a dissident student asking soldiers to go back home as crowds flood into central Beijing. (CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images) #


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In this file photo from May 30, 1989, a student from an art institute plasters the neck of a replica of New York's Statue of Liberty dubbed the Goddess of Democracy in front of the Great Hall of the People (right) and the monument to the People's Heroes (center) to promote the pro-democracy protests against the Chinese government at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images) #


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This photo taken on May 1, 1989 shows Wang Dan (center), a leading Chinese dissident during 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations and member of the Beida students delegaton, addressing foreign correspondents in Beijing. (CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images) #


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A file photograph from June 3, 1989 shows a dissident student (left) shouting to soldiers, asking them to go back home as crowds flood into central Beijing ahead of the army's crackdown on pro-democracy protests. (CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images) #


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Hundreds of thousands of people fill Beijing's central Tiananmen Square in front of the Monument to People's Heroes and Mao's mausoleum in the biggest popular upheaval in China since the Cultural Revolution of the 1960's in this May 17, 1989 photo. (REUTERS/Ed Nachtrieb) #


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An armoured personel carrier crushes one of the tents set up on Tiananmen Square by pro-democracy protestors early Sunday morning in this June 4, 1989 file photo. (REUTERS/Stringer) #


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This file photo taken on June 4, 1989 shows an armoured personnel carrier in flames as students set it on fire near Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (TOMMY CHENG/AFP/Getty Images) #


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A captured tank driver is helped to safety by students as some in the crowd beat him in this June 4, 1989 photo in Beijing. (REUTERS/Stringer) #


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This June 4, 1989 photograph shows a girl, wounded during the clash between the army and students near Tiananmen Square in Beijing being carried out by a cart. (MANUEL CENETA/AFP/Getty Images) #


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This file photo taken on June 4, 1989 shows Beijing residents inspecting some of over 20 armoured personnel carriers and other vehicles burnt by demonstrators to prevent the troops from moving into Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (MANUEL CENETA/AFP/Getty Images) #


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This photo from June 6, 1989 shows People's Liberation Army (PLA) tanks and soldiers guarding the strategic Chang'an Avenue leading to Tiananmen Square in Beijing two days after their crackdown on pro-democracy students. (MANUEL CENETA/AFP/Getty Images) #


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This file photo taken on June 4, 1989 shows Beijing residents inspecting the interior of one of the armoured personnel carriers burnt by demonstrators to prevent the troops from moving into Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (MANUEL CENETA/AFP/Getty Images) #


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In this photo taken on June 5, 1989 and made available for the first time by the AP on Thursday June 4, 2009, three unidentified men flee the scene, as another man (background left) stands alone to block a line of approaching tanks (background right) in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. This previously unseen photograph was taken by then-AP reporter Terril Jones and came to light after online discussions of the incident on The New York Times' Lens Blog on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. (AP Photo/Terril Jones) #


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A single man blocks an approaching column of PLA tanks on Changan Avenue east of Tiananmen Square in Beijing June 5, 1989 (REUTERS/Arthur Tsang) #


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In this June 5, 1989 file photo, a Chinese protestor blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. June 5, 1989 in front of the Beijing Hotel. The man was shortly pulled away and the tanks continued on their way. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) #


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Fast-forward twenty years to the present, and this is the same view of Changan Avenue, filled with traffic on June 4, 2009. (REUTERS/David Gray) #


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Wang Dan (seen as a younger man in photo 4 above), a key figure in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in China, photographed on May 24, 2009, attending a press conference in Taipei. Twenty years on he says he has no regrets over the tumultuous period that transformed him from a college student to a counter-revolutionary. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images) #


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On June 2, 2009, three Chinese dissidents, from left to right, Yu Zhijian, Yu Dongyue and Lu Decheng pose beside a photograph of the defaced Chairman Mao portrait, which they had pelted with dye-filled eggs during the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, in Washington, June 2, 2009. The three men spent much of the past 20 years behind bars for marring the massive portrait at Tiananmen Square, and today say that the students who led that movement have failed to continue the struggle. . (REUTERS/Jim Young) #


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Ding Zilin, mother of 17-year-old pro-democracy demonstrator Jiang Jielian who was killed during the 1989 army crackdown on Tiananmen protesters, weeps as she talks about the event in her Beijing flat during an interview on April 7, 2009. Twenty years on, Ding's pain is still as raw as it was when her son was shot through the heart in the army crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters in China, an event that she says broke her. (PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) #

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