The hunger strikes begun on May 13, 1989, by the students on Tiananmen Square continued and rapidly...
Despite the Chinese regime appearing to have modernised don't be fooled, it is still up to its old tricks.
This series documents in photographs the struggles of Chinese university students to reform the Chinese regime.
On the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has encouraged China to improve its human rights record.
The Chinese regime called the killing of a Party official possible involved in asexual assault, "excessive self-defense.”
2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre.
With the death on April 15, 1989 of Hu Yaobang, the former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party who was beloved as a reformer, students in Beijing and around the country began taking steps to honor his memory. From this impulse grew what would become the democracy movement.
"We were gathered around a small radio, listening ... to reports of the bloody ending of the students’ protests."
The Tiananmen Mothers, relatives of victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, demand that the Chinese regime tell the truth.
Twenty years ago they stood in Tiananmen Square, singing the songs of the Communist Party they earnestly hoped to reform. These party-loyal activists, students mostly, didn't imagine the tanks would roll in. On June 4, they learned the lesson their parents were afraid to tell them: their great party was a killing machine.