The
protests first began in April 1989, with students filling Beijing's
large, central square, to peacefully call for reform. Later the
protest was shifted to Tiananmen square, thousands of students
demonstrating for democratic rights. The student protesters, who had
occupied the public square for seven weeks, elicited widespread
sympathy among international audiences.The weeks that followed saw
the arrest of thousands, violent clashes between student protesters
and security forces.
The
fateful day of 4th June 1989, when the Chinese Communist party (CCP)
sent 200,000 soldiers in armored tanks to suppress the peaceful
pro-democracy protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, causing hundreds
if not thousands of fatalities, it is unimaginable to many that, 25
years later, this barbaric regime would still be in power, and the
massacre would be rendered a taboo. But despite the party's most
ardent efforts to wipe the episode from history, memories of the
massacre refuse to be crushed.. The Tiananmen Square protests of
1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident where 'Every person
in the crowd was a victim of the massacre' was a clear example of
communist ideology of suppressing the pro democratic movement.
