Origins and consequences of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Part 1 By John Chan 4 June 2009 The following is the first part of a three-part series.
Click here for part 2 and 3 Two decades ago, on June 4 1989, Beijing resembled a war zone, with trucks ablaze, rapid and continuous gunfire and tanks rolling through streets strewn with dead bodies. Remembering revolutions: tiananmen square. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square. 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square Several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic protest in Peking's (Beijing) Tiananmen Square.
Tanks rumbled through the capital's streets late on 3 June as the army moved into the square from several directions, randomly firing on unarmed protesters.