Beginning the night of June 3, 1989, and stretching into the early morning of June 4, Chinese troops used lethal force to end a seven-week-long occupation of Tiananmen Square by democracy protestors in Beijing. In this photo, students and workers armed with wooden sticks gather outside the Great Hall of the People on June 3.
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Beginning the night of June 3, 1989, and stretching into the early morning of June 4, Chinese troops used lethal force to end a seven-week-long occupation of Tiananmen Square by democracy protestors in Beijing. In this photo, students and workers armed with wooden sticks gather outside the Great Hall of the People on June 3.
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A student demands People's Liberation Army soldiers leave as crowds flood into central Beijing on June 3, 1989.
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A student demands People's Liberation Army soldiers leave as crowds flood into central Beijing on June 3, 1989.
Students on the roof of a bus display items confiscated from PLA soldiers after they forced troops to retreat from the area on June 3, 1989.
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Students on the roof of a bus display items confiscated from PLA soldiers after they forced troops to retreat from the area on June 3, 1989.
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An armored personnel carrier is set on fire by students.
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An armored personnel carrier is set on fire by students.
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People's Liberation Army soldiers leap over a barrier in Tiananmen Square.
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People's Liberation Army soldiers leap over a barrier in Tiananmen Square.
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A girl wounded during the clash near Tiananmen Square is carried out on a cart.
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A girl wounded during the clash near Tiananmen Square is carried out on a cart.
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An injured foreign journalist is transported away from the Tiananmen Square clash.
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An injured foreign journalist is transported away from the Tiananmen Square clash.
Residents inspect an armored personnel carrier set on fire by rioters.
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Residents inspect an armored personnel carrier set on fire by rioters.
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A resident on the west side of Tiananmen Square shows a slug from an automatic rifle fired by the army that went through his flat's window.
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A resident on the west side of Tiananmen Square shows a slug from an automatic rifle fired by the army that went through his flat's window.
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Residents pass by armored personnel carriers burnt by demonstrators to prevent troops from moving into Tiananmen Square.
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Residents pass by armored personnel carriers burnt by demonstrators to prevent troops from moving into Tiananmen Square.
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In this iconic image, an anonymous "tank man" stands in protest in front of a column of Chinese tanks on June 5.
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In this iconic image, an anonymous "tank man" stands in protest in front of a column of Chinese tanks on June 5.
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