opening fire. the next day, june 5, 1989, this defining image of the crackdown that an unidentified man in a white shirt facing off against a column of tanks. brave loan act of defiance. his name and face remained a mystery. no official death toll was ever released by the chinese government. but human rights groups estimate it was in the hundreds, if not thousands, seen as will ripley has done extensive reporting china tonight he joins us from taipei, taiwan so can you just remind people of what this anniversary represents it will june 4, 1989, 35 years ago. we don t know, as you said, how many people were massacred in tiananmen square? these were young. some of the best and brightest minds in china we re out protesting for democracy, protesting for an end to government corruption and their calls were brutally suppressed by the people s liberation army. the day after this video. and that iconic photo, which
censored as soon as we mentioned, as i said in the tie s. but for the commercial break that we re gonna be talking about, shanahan square. these color bars went up and the signal is now being blocked. so tim and vigils have also obviously been banned in china. what security been like, they re well, obviously there s always heavy security at tenement square. there s heavy security in hong kong at victoria park where up until 2020, there were protests every year, sometimes with 150,000 people. this year, they arrested did for people, two men, two women, ages 23269. that s basically all that s left of any commemoration of gentlemen square and hong kong. and yeah, as you see from the colored bars, china has essentially tried to erase this moment, this date, june 4, 1989, from its history, i have friends who grew up in china who are highly educated people, but but they didn t even know about the tenement square massacre until they moved out of the country and learned about it on the free
today, red army tanks and troops moved in. witnesses told horrifying stories, some opening fire the next day, june 5, 1989, this defining image of the crackdown that an unidentified man in a white shirt facing off against a column of tanks. brave loan act of defines his name and face remained a mystery. no official death toll was ever released by the chinese government, but human rights groups estimated was in the hundreds, if not thousands cnn s will ripley has done extensive reporting. china tonight, he joins us from taipei, taiwan so can you just remind people of what this enter anniversary represents that will in june 4, 1989, 35 years ago, we don t know, as you said, how many people were massacred in gentlemen squared, these were young. some of the best and brightest minds in china who were out protesting for democracy, protesting for an end to government corruption and their calls were brutally suppressed by the people s
china right now. we re being censored as soon as we mentioned, as i said in the tie s. but for the commercial break that we re gonna be talking about, gentleman square, these color bars went up and the signal is now being blocked. so tim vigils have also obviously been banned in china. what security been like, they re well, obviously there s always heavy security at tenement square. there s heavy security in hong kong at victoria park where up until 2020 there were protests every year, sometimes 150,000 people. this year, they arrested for people to men, two women, ages 23269. that s basically all that s left of any commemoration of tenement square and hong kong. and yeah, as you see from the color bar, is china has essentially tried to erase this moment, this date, june 4, 1989, from its history, i have friends who grew up in china who are highly educated people, but they didn t even know what about the gentlemen square massacre until they moved out of the country and alert about it