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While working as a reporter in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he shot many photographs and recorded several hours of video. It wasn’t until weeks afterwards, when he had returned to Japan, that he discovered the magnitude of what ... ...full story at Black China Hand

from Black China Hand on Thu, Jun 04 2009

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17 Apr 08 visit Tiananmen Square Massacre Video  »  YouTube videoThe Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in China referred to as the June Fourth Incident to avoid confusion with the two other Tiananmen Square protests and as an act of official censorship, were a series of...
03 Jun 09 visit A brief history of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre  »  angrychineseblogger In June 1989 the Mainland Chinese government sent in tanks and troops to crush peaceful demonstrators who had gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. And every years since it has done it's level best to prevent the Chinese people from discussing a
04 Jun 09 visit James Kynge: West miscasts Tiananmen protesters  »  Danwei James Kynge in The Financial Times: When I think about the massacre in central Beijing that followed weeks of demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which I covered as part of a team of Reuters reporters, I cannot help feeling troubled. Of course...
10 Nov 09 visit 1989, a ripple effect from Tiananmen to Checkpoint Charlie?  »  Peking Duck Foreign Policy offers an interesting if somewhat debatable book excerpt on the role the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations played in influencing soon-to-follow demonstrations in Europe, where less than six months after the crackdown in Beijing the...
17 May 09 visit 20 Excerpts: “Sorting Fact From Fiction - Tiananmen Revisited”  »  CN Reviews 20 excerpts from Mark Anthony Jones' illuminating essay discussing what happened and who to blame for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests & eventual "massacre."Post from: CN Reviews 20 Excerpts: “Sorting Fact From Fiction - Tiananmen...
04 Jun 08 visit Tiananmen Square - June 4  »  Countdown to Beijing Tiananmen Square - June 4, 2008.  Pictures by David Gray.  Nineteen years after the crushing of the pro-democracy protests and 65 days before the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, check out Chris Buckley’s feature on  the ‘08 genera...

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