Remembering the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre

The Tiananmen Square protests were student led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and free press in China. However, they were halted in a bloody crackdown known as Tiananmen Square Massacre by the Chinese government on June 4, 1989. The Massacre was the climax to the tensions that had been building up in the previous 10 years, a reaction to the failure of Deng’s reforms.