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Wikipedia: The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, referred to in much of the world as the Tiananmen Square massacre and in the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the June Fourth Incident (officially to avoid confusion with two prior Tiananmen Square protests), were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the PRC beginning on 14 April 1989. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world. The protests were sparked by the death of a pro-democracy and anti-corruption official, Hu Yaobang, whom protesters wanted to mourn.
![[A memorial depicting a destroyed bicycle and a tank track — symbol of the Tiananmen Square protests — in the...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tiananmen_Wroclaw_plDominikanski_s.jpg "A memorial depicting a destroyed bicycle and a tank track — symbol of the Tiananmen Square protests — in the...")
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![[Tiananmen Square as seen from the Tiananmen Gate in 2004.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/200401_beijing_tianan_square_overview_s.jpg "Tiananmen Square as seen from the Tiananmen Gate in 2004.")
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