30th anniversary of the Tiananmen square demonstrations

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June 5, 2019 6:22PM EDT

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Tiananmen Square — Thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil for victims of the Chinese government’s brutal military crackdown three decades ago on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square at Victoria Park in Hong Kong . Hong Kong is the only region under Beijing’s jurisdiction that holds significant public commemorations of the 1989 crackdown and memorials for its victims. Hong Kong has a degree of freedom not seen on the mainland as a legacy of British rule that ended in 1997. June 4th marked the 30th Anniversary of The Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, China, and it’s always a solemn and sad day of remembrance for the film producer and director Trudie Styler. Styler, produced the award winning documentary, Moving the Mountain, about the courageous Chinese students and student leaders, many of whom died trying to bring democracy to communist China in 1989.

Tiananmen, Hong Kong, Hong Kong – 04 Jun 2019

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Tiananmen Square — A Beijing University student marcher holds a red flag aloft as he emerges from campus, . Students from several Beijing universities participated in a planned march to Tiananmen Square in Beijing in defiance of a government demand they end their campaign for political reform
China Pro Democracy Protests, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — A Beijing University student leader argues with a policeman about the students’ right to march as they are told not to march when emerging from their campus in Beijing, China, on . Students from more than forty universities march to Tiananmen Square in protest of the April 26 editorial in the Communist Party newspaper despite warnings of violent suppression
TAINANMEN STUDENT DEMONSTRATION, BEIJING, China

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Tiananmen Square — WANG DAN Chinese dissident Wang Dan addresses fellow students during a demonstration in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in this May 1989 photo. China denied a report that it made a deal with the United States to release Wang, now jailed for his leadership of 1989 pro-democracy movement. But the Chinese government left open the possibility that he could be paroled on medical grounds. The characters on Wang’s headband translate as ‘hunger strike
CHINA DISSIDENT, BEIJING, China

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Tiananmen Square — University students push against a police line in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in an attempt to get inside the Great Hall of the people during a banquet there in honor of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Beijing
China Student Demonstrations, BEIJING, China

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Tiananmen Square — A student protester sleeps in the shade of his umbrella in the huge crowd of demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square
China Student Demonstrations, BEIJING, China

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Tiananmen Square — Students and police link arms to keep crowds of people, many of these relatives of strikers, from Tiananmen Square, where students have been on hunger strike since Saturday, Beijing, China
Tiananmen Square Protests 1989, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — Enthusiastic demonstrators are cheered by bystanders as they arrive at Tiananmen Square to show support for the student hunger strike, Beijing, China. Students are striking for government reforms
Tiananmen Square Protests 1989, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — Demonstrators surround trucks carrying unidentified Peoples’ Liberation Army troops as they headed toward the city center, Beijing, China. Some fifteen trucks were stopped by the demonstrators
Tiananmen Square Protests 1989, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — University students rest in Tainanmen Square, Beijing,, wher their strike for government reforms is in its 13th day
China Tiananmen Square Students, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — A group of students rest before their tattered tents in Tiananmen Square, Beijing,, where thousands of students continue their sit-in protest to press the government for political reforms
China Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — Civilians with rocks stand on a government armored vehicle near Chang’an Boulevard in Beijing as violence escalated between pro-democracy protesters and Chinese troops, leaving hundreds dead overnight. The legacy of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square looms larger in Hong Kong than in mainland China, where the Communist Party has virtually erased all public mention of it. In this former British colony, hundreds of thousands attend candlelight vigils each anniversary to commemorate the grim end to the Beijing movement that was vanquished before many of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong’s streets were even born
Hong Kong Tiananmen Legacy, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — Local residents stand atop a rickshaw and flash victory-signs in Beijing, as they welcome the moderate troops which have encircled the rival army. Fighting broke out between moderate and hardliner troops which had massacred their way to Tiananmen Square last Sunday
China Pro-Democracy Crackdown, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — A couple of student pedals by a statue of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung at Shanghai’s Fudong University, . A group of students and faculty members set up a black-draped makeshift funeral home at the foot of the statue, mourning the death last weekend of their comrades in the army’s bloody crackdown on those demanding democracy in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
Tiananmen Square Aftermath, Shanghai, China

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Tiananmen Square — A convoy of some 40 PLA troops carrying trucks leaves the Tiananmen Square area down Chang An Avenue, Beijing, China. Details of the withdrawal are not known
Tiananmen Square Protest Aftermath 1989, Beijing, China

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Tiananmen Square — A young unidentified Chinese girl shows her support for the students massacred in Tiananmen Square at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York, on . People bought headbands and buttons and signed petitions to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take action, as China steps up the arrests and executions
Protests US 1989 New York Chinese Students Democracy, New York, USA

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Tiananmen Square — Trudie Styler (Producer), Michael Apted (Director)
New York Special Screening for “MOVING THE MOUNTAIN” Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square, After Party and Q and A, USA – 04 Jun 2019

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Tiananmen Square — Trudie Styler (Producer) with Guest
New York Special Screening for “MOVING THE MOUNTAIN” Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square, After Party and Q and A, USA – 04 Jun 2019

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Tiananmen Square — Michael Apted (Director), Trudie Styler (Producer), Celine Rattray
New York Special Screening for “MOVING THE MOUNTAIN” Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square, New York, USA – 04 Jun 2019

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Tiananmen Square — Thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil for victims of the Chinese government’s brutal military crackdown three decades ago on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, . Hong Kong is the only region under Beijing’s jurisdiction that holds significant public commemorations of the 1989 crackdown and memorials for its victims. Hong Kong has a degree of freedom not seen on the mainland as a legacy of British rule that ended in 1997
Tiananmen Commemoration, Hong Kong, Hong Kong – 04 Jun 2019

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Tiananmen Square — Participants attend the annual candlelit vigil commemorating the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, China, 04 June 2019. Thousand of people gathered to demand the vindication of the June 04 pro-democracy student movement in Beijing and the end of one-party rule in China. Hong Kong, along with Macau, is the only place on Chinese soil where such a vigil is allowed.
Annual vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre 30th anniversary., Hong Kong, China – 04 Jun 2019

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Tiananmen Square — Thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil for victims of the Chinese government’s brutal military crackdown three decades ago on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, . Hong Kong is the only region under Beijing’s jurisdiction that holds significant public commemorations of the 1989 crackdown and memorials for its victims. Hong Kong has a degree of freedom not seen on the mainland as a legacy of British rule that ended in 1997
Tiananmen Commemoration, Hong Kong, Hong Kong – 04 Jun 2019

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Tiananmen Square — Participants attend the annual candlelit vigil commemorating the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, China, 04 June 2019. Thousand of people gathered to demand the vindication of the June 04 pro-democracy student movement in Beijing and the end of one-party rule in China. Hong Kong, along with Macau, is the only place on Chinese soil where such a vigil is allowed.
Annual vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre 30th anniversary., Hong Kong, China – 04 Jun 2019

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