WASHINGTON—The spirit of the Chinese student democracy movement lives on, said attendees of a candlelight vigil held in the nation’s capital commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Thirty-three years ago, on June 3, 1989, CCP leaders ordered the military to remove the student-led demonstrators who had occupied Tiananmen Square for weeks demanding democracy in China. By the early morning of June 4, tanks and troops had cleared the area. Hundreds of students, if not more, were killed.
The “tank man,” an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a formation of tanks on June 5, 1989, became one of the movement’s most iconic images….
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