![]() But Louisa Lim, NPR's longtime China correspondent, says the country's government has done all it can in the intervening 25 years to erase the memory of the uprising. The media captured some of the story of the massacre in Beijing. Hundreds died to this day, no one knows how many. Demonstrators remained in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, day after day, until their protests were brutally suppressed by the Chinese army - on June 4. But what began as mourning evolved into mass protests demanding democracy. Twenty-five years ago, on April 15, 1989, Chinese students were mourning the death of a reformist leader. The photographer of this image - and several below - asked not to be identified because of current ties with China. Students in the southwest city of Chengdu began their own hunger strike in Tianfu Square several days after their Beijing counterparts. ![]() But across China, similar protests were taking place. The world media captured the 1989 protests and crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. ![]()
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