Tiananmen Square massacre

A student leader celebrates the successful disruption of an officially sponsored pro-government rally at the Chang Ping Bicycle Stadium outside Beijing on June 1. Led by students, many who went on hunger strikes, the anti-government protests were joined by groups of workers and spread to over 400 cities around China, and even as far as Inner Mongolia.
Twenty years ago, Chinese students were staging a mass protest to call for political reform. It was to end in tragedy on June 4







