May 30th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Tourists flock in their hundreds of thousands to Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing.
Kate Adie found herself playing cat and mouse with the secret police
They can marvel at history in the Forbidden City and gaze at modern China's fashionably dressed citizens dodging shoals of Mercedes.
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10:22It happened in Tiananmen Square - 31 May 09 - Part 1
Twenty years have passed since hundreds of thousands of people flooded onto the streets of Beijing and into Tiananmen Square demanding democracy, freedom of speech and an end to corruption. After a seven week standoff, the Communist government called in the troops and a bloody battle pursued ...
37:12Tiananmen Survivors Recall Massacre
For higher resolution watch www.ntdtv.com to watch more on youtube : youtube.com choose playlist and then "Zooming in" WONG: 18 years ago on June 3rd 1989, the Chinese communist regime dispatched several hundred thousand troops to Beijing ...
12:41It happened in Tiananmen Square - 31 May 09 - Part 2
Twenty years have passed since hundreds of thousands of people flooded onto the streets of Beijing and into Tiananmen Square demanding democracy, freedom of speech and an end to corruption. After a seven week standoff, the Communist government called in the troops and a bloody battle pursued ...
1:56China Tiananmen Square's 'Tank Man' Still a mystery
tinyurl.com ------- PLS DON'T CLICK THIS LINK!!! Tank Man — his identity has never been determined — shot to worldwide fame that day for stopping those tanks, hours after they had brutally crushed student-led protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square ...
