The Tiananmen Square crackdown, 25 years later

The Washington Post
  • 10 years ago
Hundreds of people were killed in 1989 when Chinese soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Dan Southerland, The Post's Beijing bureau chief at the time, talks about what led to the anti-government demonstrations and military crackdown.

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