Tiananmen Square, 1989
•June 3-4, 1989
•Democracy movements had grown in strength since the arrival of Deng
•May 4 1989 they have mass rallies in honour of the 70th anniversary of the last major democratic uprising
•Many students remain and start a hunger strike
•Li Peng took a harsh stance on this and ordered the PLA to take whatever action necessary
•Army arrives in early June and are reluctant to deal with the crowd •3 June they broke into the square and opened fire
•400-800 people killed, many were not students and many killed on streets outside of the square
•Reaffirmed China’s hardline on party dissent and public freedoms
•However economic changes were irreversible and 1992 Deng ended price controls.
•Democracy movements had grown in strength since the arrival of Deng
•May 4 1989 they have mass rallies in honour of the 70th anniversary of the last major democratic uprising
•Many students remain and start a hunger strike
•Li Peng took a harsh stance on this and ordered the PLA to take whatever action necessary
•Army arrives in early June and are reluctant to deal with the crowd •3 June they broke into the square and opened fire
•400-800 people killed, many were not students and many killed on streets outside of the square
•Reaffirmed China’s hardline on party dissent and public freedoms
•However economic changes were irreversible and 1992 Deng ended price controls.
The Mystery of ‘Tank Man’
•Never in World history has a single image captured a struggle quite so well
•Rumoured to have been named Wang Weilin, a 19 year old student
•He has been rumoured also to have been shot, imprisoned and never found and still free in hiding
•In an 1992 interview with Barbara Walters then General Secretary Jiang Zemin stated “I think never killed”
•Rumoured to have been named Wang Weilin, a 19 year old student
•He has been rumoured also to have been shot, imprisoned and never found and still free in hiding
•In an 1992 interview with Barbara Walters then General Secretary Jiang Zemin stated “I think never killed”
question
What would have happend if the chinese government did put down the protest?
summary
Was a student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing in the spring of 1989 that received broad support from city residents and exposed deep splits within China's political leadership but were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the militaryto enforce martial law in the country's capital. The crackdown initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.