On June 4, 1989, student-led dissenters gathered in a Chinese city and faced soldiers armed with assault rifles as tanks rolled toward them. The protests had started two months before as the communist People’s Republic of China dealt with economic and social issues sweeping the post-Mao nation. Communist China declared martial law days before, but that didn’t stop the anti-government demonstrators from coming back to the square.
Moments later, soldiers fired into the crowd of protesters, and blood covered the street. Estimates range from hundreds to thousands who were mercilessly slaughtered by brute government force on the day remembered as the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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