Remembering Tiananmen: 25 years later

This video is of the violently crushed 1989 pro-democracy protests in China. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political leadership. The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital. The crackdown that initiated on June 3--4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted thousands of casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance on Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks. The scale of military mobilization and the resulting bloodshed were unprecedented in the history of Beijing. The Chinese government condemned the protests as a "counter-revolutionary riot", and has prohibited all forms of discussion or remembrance of the events within China. Even the memoirs of leaders who supported the crackdown are banned. Due to the lack of information from China, many aspects of the events remain unknown or unconfirmed. Estimates of the death toll range from several hundred to the thousands The voiceover is a recording of a broadcast made by Radio Beijing on June 3, 1989 during the Tiananmen Square protests. Recorded by G. Jack Urso, the voice you hear is that of Yuan Neng who was later sacked for making the broadcast. The video footage has been taken from various sources and I do not own any of the material used in this video. All material belongs to their respective owners.