View Tiananmen Square Protest Images Pics. Peter charlesworth/lightrocket via getty images. Here are historical images from the protests.
'Playing with fire': Beijing blasts Western nations over ... from i1.wp.com The images are seared into popular memory, at least outside china, as a symbol of courage and defiance: However, still images and video of his brave act were captured by the western press members nearby and smuggled out for the world to see. It is by no means certain he is still alive.
Here are historical images from the protests.
Three decades after tiananmen square, commemorating what happened there has become its own form of protest. Nonetheless, by the time the tiananmen square protests and massacre were over less than two months later, 250 to 4,000 people lay dead. See more ideas about square, tiananmen square protests of 1989, beijing. Image captionon 15 april the former communist party.
