On June 4, 1989, the Chinese military took swift and violent action against pro-democracy protesters on and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Several hundred people have been killed and thousands wounded when soldiers moved on Tiananmen Square during a violent military crackdown ending six weeks of student demonstrations, known as the Beijing Spring movement.
PACKAGE: From The Archives: Crackdown On Tiananmen Square 1989
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A military helicopter drops leaflets above Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 22, 1989.
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Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Secretary General Zhao Ziyang (center) addresses the student hunger strikers through a megaphone at dawn 19 May 1989 in one of the buses at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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Paramedics evacuate ailing student student hunger striker from Beijing University on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 17, 1989.
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Two pro-democracy demonstrators get a birds eye view of activities in Tiananmen Square, Wednesday, May 17, 1989, where pro-democracy hunger strikers had been sheltered.