In Pictures, Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre

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Twenty-five years ago on Wednesday, the Chinese government, acting under martial law, deployed 200,000 troops into Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

For seven weeks, pro-democracy protesters — many of whom were students — occupied the square. They called for freedom of the press and government accountability, among other goals, according to The New Yorker . The Chinese government's decision to forcefully remove protesters was bloody, resulting in the deaths of between 500 and 2,500 people

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While tanks rolled in to Tiananmen Square, photojournalist Stuart Franklin documented history from his hotel balcony, according to his first-person account in The Guardian . Franklin's iconic photograph, "Tank Man," was reproduced around the world Read more...

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