memory that iconic photo of a lone man facing down a row of armored tanks defiance against the brutal crackdown at tiananmen square when chinese soldiers shot and killed thousands of their unarmed fellow citizens in the spring of 1909 students occupied the square demanding new reforms and freedoms from the communist government but their hopes of economic change social change greater freedom of speech and less corruption it hit a nerve in the regime the chinese government declared martial law and in the early hours of june 4th troops moved in and brutally ended the pro-democracy movement shocking the world now just yesterday for the 1st time a chinese government spokesman said that the crackdown in $1809.00 had been correct a stark departure from decades of policies attempting to keep the event out of history books and punishing those who commemorate the event now despite all of that
from the communist government but their hopes of economic change social change greater freedom of speech and less corruption it hit a nerve in the regime the chinese government declared martial law and in the early hours of june 4th troops moved in and brutally ended the pro-democracy movement shocking the world now just yesterday for the 1st time a chinese government spokesman said that the crackdown in $1809.00 had been correct a stark departure from decades of policies attempting to keep the event out of history books and punishing those who commemorate the event now despite all of that there are people doing their best to keep the memory of the tiananmen square massacre a law. in 1909 i was a 4th year student in university. was a book publisher in hong kong. so i wasn t very interested in society that.