This famous photo says it all. In 1989, a massacre on what square shook the world?

Protests in China culminated in a massacre at Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989. The protests had sprung from student demonstrations that began three years prior over slow reform, rule of law, and a call for democracy. The crackdown on protestors at the square led to 241 deaths and an estimated 7,000 wounded (according to the Chinese government).

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