Today marks 20 years of protests from the Tian'anmen Square, also known as the slaughter of Tiananmen, Tiananmen revolt or June 4 incident.
They consisted of a series of demonstrations led by students in the People's Republic of China, which occurred between April 15 and June 4, 1989. The protest is named after the place where the People's Army Liberation abolished mobilization: the Tian'anmen Square in Beijing. The protesters came from different groups, ranging from intellectuals who believed that the Communist Party government was too repressive and corrupt of the city workers who believed that China's economic reforms had gone too far and that inflation and unemployment were threatening their lifestyles. The event that began the protests was the death of the leader Hu Yaobang and the slow response of the Government of China to honor his memory.
After protests and calls the Government requesting its dissolution occurred within the Communist Party a division of opinion about how to respond to the protesters. The decision was to suppress the protests by force, instead of acceding to their demands. On 20 May, the government declared martial law on the night of June 3, sent tanks and infantry of the army to Tiananmen Square to break up the protest. Estimates of civilian deaths vary: 400-800 (CIA), 2600 (according to unnamed sources from the China Red Cross). The number of injured is estimated at between 7,000 and 10,000. After the violence, the government undertook a large number of arrests to suppress the instigators of the movement, expelled the foreign press and strictly controlled coverage of events in the Chinese press. The cruel repression of the protest in Tiananmen Square led to international condemnation of the actions of the government of the People's Republic of China.
In one of the last days of the protests was taken the photo that won the World Press Photo 1989, which shows a young opponent standing in the middle of a street holding a column of tanks circulated by it.
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