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	CNN - Observances subdued 7 years after Tiananmen Square crackdown - June 4, 1996
		Early Tuesday, the square was filled with the usual crowd of Chinese and foreign tourists.
		The brutality of the military attack in 1989 and a heavy police presence on Beijing's streets during subsequent anniversaries have effectively dissuaded most Chinese from public commemorations.
		When the numbers in the square topped 1 million, party elders and hard-liners feared their legitimacy would be forever diminished and decided to strike back.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9606/04/tianamen.anniv (671 words)

	Victoria Park, Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This statue, together with other ones from the square, were displaced to Japan to be melted by the occupying Japanese during World War II.
		A vigil attracting thousands of people is held there every year on June 4 to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square Crackdown.
		A city forum, sponsored and broadcasted to the public by Radio Television Hong Kong, is usually held in the park for every Sunday.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_Park,_Hong_Kong (418 words)

	Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History : Documents
		The student demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in 1989 were not the first time in the 1980s that Chinese authorities were faced with organized demonstrations expressing dissatisfaction with their rule.
		On the day before the crackdown began, the Beijing city government tightened restrictions on the foreign media reporting on the Tiananmen Square demonstration, and the Chinese leadership was becoming increasingly frustrated with the persistence of the student demonstrators and their refusal to clear the square.
		The crackdown continued through the night, and by early morning June 4, as this cable reports, the PLA was in control Tiananmen Square.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/documents (6170 words)

	Hong Kong marks Tiananmen anniversary - World - www.smh.com.au
		Commemorating the students killed in Beijing's crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, tens of thousands of people vowed here to fight on for universal suffrage in China and Hong Kong.
		People young and old sang and chanted at the annual commemoration that was highly charged this year after Beijing told Hong Kong citizens in April they cannot directly elect their next leader in 2007 or all lawmakers in 2008.
		The Tiananmen Square crackdown gave Hong Kong a political awakening.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/05/1086377177673.html (656 words)

	China: 15 years after Tiananmen, arrests go on and calls for justice continue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Fifteen years on from the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square people are still imprisoned and are being arrested and harassed for their links with the protests, Amnesty International said today.
		The bodies of some of those killed during the crackdown were discovered in unmarked graves in central Beijing, and at least 30 other demonstrators who disappeared that night have never been accounted for and are presumed dead.
		This was imposed in 1989 as a direct response to the actions of the government against the protesters on Tiananmen Square.
	www.amnesty.org.uk /deliver/document/15397.html (925 words)

	Congressional Research Service
		On June 20, 1989, the President suspended high-level U.S. Government exchanges with Chinese officials, and directed American representatives at various international financial institutions to seek to postpone consideration of new loans for China.
		In all but one of these cases, the sanctions were imposed shortly after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, in protest to China's actions.
		The ban on weapons sales was first imposed by Presidential action on June 5, 1989, when President Bush announced he would prohibit all U.S. Government and commercial sales of military equipment and weapons.
	www.fas.org /man/crs/94-92f.htm (3525 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Tiananmen bloodshed remembered
		Chinese communities around the world have marked the 15th anniversary of the Communist Party's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
		The day was not marked officially in mainland China, though a handful of protesters were arrested at the square.
		There has been a recent increase in signed petitions calling for the government to reassess 4 June 1989, when troops opened fire on unarmed protesters around the square leaving hundreds dead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3775463.stm (616 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Tiananmen bloodshed remembered
		Ahead of the anniversary, activists in China and government critics were reported to have been put under house arrest or forced to leave Beijing.
		A few people were hustled away to police vans after making small protests - including a man of about 50 who kneeled to pray in the centre of the square, according to a journalist on the scene.
		In fact, there are even reports that Chinese officials have been ordered to watch a new documentary on the demonstrations, to persuade them that the crackdown was the only option available.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3775463.stm (616 words)

	Online NewsHour: Tiananmen Papers -- January 11, 2001
		The world watched as China's army cleared out Tiananmen Square and the rest of Beijing, where hundred of thousands of students and others had been demonstrating for democratic reforms.
		The decision to send in the army was made in top-level Communist Party meetings in the park-like compound known as Zhongnanhai, and in the final days before the crackdown at meetings in party elder Deng Xiaoping's home.
		ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The student gatherings in Beijing began in April 1989 as a funeral tribute to a pro-reform Communist Party leader.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/jan-june01/tiananmen_1-11.html (1197 words)

	CNN.com - Purged Chinese leader dies - Jan 16, 2005
		He opposed the use of force against the Tiananmen Square demonstrators and was removed from his post during the clampdown.
		He was last seen in public in May 1989, when he visited hunger strikers at the Square.
		Zhai Weimin, one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests, said Zhao was "a daring and resolute reformer...
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/16/china.zhao (505 words)

	CNN.com - Memorial for China's purged leader - Jan 29, 2005
		The nation's state television on Saturday broadcast the first official obituary for Zhao, recognizing his contribution to reforms, but saying he made "serious mistakes" during the 1989 protests, according to news agencies.
		A standard-bearer for reform, Zhao opposed the use of force against the Tiananmen Square demonstrators.
		He was removed from his post during the clampdown and was kept under house arrest inside his closely guarded Beijing compound until his death.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/zhao.memorial (647 words)

	Attacks on the Press in 1997
		There is therefore reason to believe that they have been released, although CPJ has not obtained information of their release.
		Yu, a journalist with Fazhi Yuekan (Law Monthly) in Shanghai, was arrested sometime after the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square crackdown.
		He was taken into custody during a police raid on his home in Istanbul and charged with violating Articles 5 and 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law (aid and propaganda for a terrorist organization) and Article 312/2 of the Penal Code (inciting racial hatred).
	www.cpj.org /attacks97/unconfirmedright.html (3574 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| Tiananmen anniversary
		"A leading Chinese doctor who criticised the Communist Party's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has disappeared on the eve of its 15th anniversary.
		Jiang Yanyong is one of several potential critics thought to have been taken from Beijing or put under house arrest ahead of the 4 June anniversary." But never mind that, "it's the economy, comrade."
		"On the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, blogs are booming in China.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/2750 (307 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- China asks EU to restore arms sales cut off after 1989 Tiananmen Square ...
		BEIJING –; China asked the European Union on Monday to end a ban on arms sales to Beijing imposed after the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and predicted prosperous times ahead as their relationship flourishes.
		The Chinese government's comments came in a major policy paper released barely two weeks before a high-level EU delegation travels to Beijing.
		The ban on arms sales was imposed after the military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031013-0703-china-eu.html (376 words)

	China, Hong Kong, Chinese Democracy and the Future
		Some say that after the student protests of 1989 and the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989, democracy and freedom in China died.
		I do not believe this to be so, and only have some patience and you will see what happens in a generation or two; wait and witness the backbone people can show when they are fighting for their freedom.
		These were the dreams of those who gave their lives at Tiananmen Square.
	www.rjgeib.com /thoughts/china/china.html (621 words)

	Find in a Library: Tiananmen Square : June 4, 1989
		China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/55726df83dcea327a19afeb4da09e526.html (75 words)

	Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
		Titled China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998, this document set is part of the Archive's Special Collection Series, published by Chadwyck-Healey Inc. (Alexandria, Virginia and Cambridge, U.K.), and will ultimately also appear in the Chadwyck-Healey World Wide Web publication of The Digital National Security Archive.
		Among the highlights of this collection are the detailed (and previously classified) U.S. government accounts of the infamous military assault by the Chinese government on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989.
		In addition to the crackdown itself, the documents also cover the student demonstrations in late 1985 and 1986 that, in hindsight, were signs of the events to come, the period leading up the PLA's use of force, and post-crackdown assessments of the events and their significance.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16 (534 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Tiananmen revisited
		Twelve years ago the Chinese Government lost patience with a student movement calling for democracy in Tiananmen square.
		The recent publishing of the Tiananmen Papers has reminded the world of the tragic events of June 1989, when students challenged the legitimacy of the Chinese Government.
		But public displays of dissent are rare and Tiananmen square remains under constant surveillance.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/tiananmen (140 words)

	China, 2005 Timeline
		Former Communist Party was ousted aafter the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters
		China is facing calls to reassess its suppression of the 1989 protests after the death of Zhao Ziyang
		Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi short her visit and flew home before a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
	www.mapreport.com /years/2005/countries/china.html (487 words)

	WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio: State Department says China should re-examine Tiananmen Square crackdown
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		STATE DEPARTMENT The State Department is urging Beijing to fully account for those killed, detained or missing in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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	www.10tv.com /Global/story.asp?S=3431361 (279 words)

	NPR : Bush Criticizes EU Plans to Lift China Arms Embargo
		Morning Edition, February 23, 2005 · One of the issues that divides the United States and Europe is a 15-year-old arms embargo on China that Europe wants to end.
		The embargo was imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy activists.
		President Bush says lifting the embargo would change the balance of relations between China and Taiwan.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4509590&sourceCode=RSS (149 words)

	State Department says China should re-examine Tiananmen Square crackdown
		State Department says China should re-examine Tiananmen Square crackdown
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