Tiananmen Square Massacre 3-4 June 1989

[niyad]

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Part of Chinese Democracy Movement in 1989
Date April 15, 1989 – June 4, 1989
(1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Location Beijing
400 cities nationwide
Causes

Death of Hu Yaobang
Economic reform
Inflation
Political corruption
Economic nepotism (especially regarding Zhao Ziyang's and Deng Xiaoping's sons)
Career prospects
Social unrest in Eastern Europe
Nanjing anti-African protests

Goals "A Communist Party Without Corruption", freedom of the press, freedom of speech
Methods Hunger strike, sit-in, occupation of public square
Result

Enforcement of martial law in certain areas of Beijing executed by force from June 3, 1989 (declared from May 20, 1989 – January 10, 1990, 7 months and 3 weeks)
Protesters (mainly workers) and rioters barricading the PLA troops and nearby innocent civilians shot by PLA on multiple sites in Beijing and around Tiananmen Square, hundreds to thousands killed, more wounded
Uncertain reports of few and isolated deaths of protestors inside Tiananmen Square
Few and isolated deaths of soldiers killed by rioters in June 4th after civilians being killed in June 3rd and June 4th
Protest leaders and pro-democracy activists later exiled or imprisoned
Some rioters charged with violent crimes were executed in the following months
Zhao Ziyang purged
Jiang Zemin promoted
Western economic sanctions and arms embargoes on the PRC
Market reforms delayed
Media control tightened
Political reform halted

Parties to the civil conflict
Communist Party of China
China Government of the People's Republic of China
People's Liberation Army Ground Force
People's Armed Police cap badge 2007.png People's Armed Police

University students
Factory workers
Beijing residents
Intellectuals
Pro-democracy protesters
Reformists
Lead figures

hardliners

Deng Xiaoping
Li Peng
Yang Shangkun
Yao Yilin
Li Ximing
Chen Xitong
Chi Haotian
Liu Huaqing

moderates

Zhao Ziyang
Hu Qili
Yan Mingfu
Bao Tong
Deng Liqun
Wan Li
Xu Qinxian



student leaders

Wu'erkaixi
Chai Ling
Kong Qingdong
Wang Dan
Shen Tong
Liu Gang
Feng Congde
Wang Hui
Li Lu

intellectuals

Liu Xiaobo
Wang Juntao
Dai Qing
Hou Dejian
Cui Jian
Zhang Boli

Casualties
Death(s) 241–3,000[1]
Injuries 7,000–10,000

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件 or '89 Democracy Movement (八九民运 ,[2] were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the first half of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political leadership. The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital.[3][4] The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks killed unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which students and other demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks. The number of civilian deaths has been estimated at anywhere between hundreds and thousands.[5] The Chinese government condemned the protests as a counter-revolutionary riot, and has largely prohibited discussion and remembrance of the events.[6][7]

The protests were triggered in April 1989 by the death of former Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, a liberal reformer who was deposed after losing a power struggle with hardliners over the direction of political and economic reforms.[8] University students marched and gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn. Hu had also voiced grievances against inflation, limited career prospects, and corruption of the party elite.[9] The protesters called for government accountability, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' control over industry.[10][11] At the height of the protests, about a million people assembled in the Square,[12] most of them university students in Beijing.

The government initially took a conciliatory stance toward the protesters.[13] The student-led hunger strike galvanized support for the demonstrators around the country and the protests spread to 400 cities by mid-May.[14] Ultimately, China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and other party elders resolved to use force.[15] Party authorities declared martial law on May 20, and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops to Beijing.[14]

In the aftermath of the crackdown, the government conducted widespread arrests of protesters and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, expelled foreign journalists and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the domestic press. The police and internal security forces were strengthened. Officials deemed sympathetic to the protests were demoted or purged.[16] Zhao Ziyang was ousted in a party leadership reshuffle and replaced with Jiang Zemin. Political reforms were largely halted and economic reforms did not resume until Deng Xiaoping's 1992 southern tour.[17][18] The Chinese government was widely condemned internationally for the use of force against the protesters. Western governments imposed economic sanctions and arms embargoes. People around the world were aware of the protests and their suppression because of unprecedented media coverage of them.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

[FreakinDJ]

1. How many products did the Prison Labor Camps import to the USA - Thanks Bill Clinton

Made In China — But Was It Made In A Prison?


An Oregon woman was looking at her Halloween decoration last year when she found a letter written by an inmate from one of China's re-education-through-labor camps. The letter spoke of brutal forced labor in the camp.

It was the latest in a series of incidents dating back to at least to the 1990s in which Chinese prisoners in such camps smuggled out letters in products assembled for export to the U.S.


Progress, however, has been limited. Still, there have been successes: In 1992, a U.S. company paid a $75,000 fine for knowingly importing machine presses that were made in a Chinese labor camp. In 2001, a Chinese manufacturer pleaded guilty to producing metal clips with forced prison labor and paid a $50,000 fine.


http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/03/28/295715854/made-in-china-but-was-it-made-in-a-prison

Just in case some of you were not aware Bill Clinton of course campaigned against Trade with China

Clinton Grants China MFN, Reversing Campaign Pledge


President Clinton Thursday reversed course on China and renewed its trade privileges despite what he said was Beijing's lack of significant progress on human rights.

http://tech.mit.edu/V114/N27/china.27w.html

[niyad]

2. wayyyyy too many

[FreakinDJ]

3. Just in case you were not paying attention - you have Bill Clinton to thank for that

[niyad]

4. bill clinton was not president in 1989

[FreakinDJ]

5. But he was in 1992 when he granted MFN to China

against his own campaign promises

That is when the Chinese Prison Camps ramped up to start exporting goods and many many of those prisoners were political prisoners from the 1989 Democracy uprising as told by survivors who made it out of China




More correct - Bill Clinton REVERSED the sanctions Poppy Bush had imposed on China after their brutal suppression of the Democracy Uprising

January 30, 1990: President Bush signs into law a China sanctions bill that includes a ban on Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) insurance for US investment in China, a suspension of export licenses for the sale of munitions, crime control equipment and satellites, and a proibition on the liberalization of COCOM controls on the sale of high technology goods.

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/china-98/visit.htm

So Bill sold out the American Working Class and helped China suppress the Democracy Uprising all in 1 fell swoop

Good Job America




ps: plenty of links on the internet if you think you can handle the truth

[Go Vols]

6. "But he was in 1992 when he granted MFN to China"

Yep,I remember watching the vote on CSPAN and was,wtf