20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Wednesday will mark the beginning of a period of heightened tension and increased security in China that will last until June 4, the date in 1989 when soldiers were sent into Tiananmen Square to crush six weeks of unprecedented democracy protests. The protests where in response to reformist leader Hu Yaobang's death in 1989.

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