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2007-04-10 03:09:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Tiananmen Square happened when a group of students protested the communist policies of China. It was peaceful until tanks rolled in through the square and the students were either ran over and crushed beneath them or shot point blank. Not all of them perished though. SOme survived.
2007-04-10 10:41:04 · answer #1 · answered by sfs18 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A well-planned site for massive gatherings, Tiananmen Square has been the rallying point for student demonstrations since 1919. A particularly dramatic series of prodemocracy student demonstrations there was forcibly repressed by the government on June 3-4, 1989, with the loss of hundreds of lives.
2007-04-10 11:22:36 · answer #2 · answered by Retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hundreds, if not thousands died when the Politburo called in a special division of Mongolians ( not ethnic Han Chinese) and turned them loose..
it has been reported that what tipped the scales and sent the Communist Mandarin rulers into ordering a massacre was the students, camped out in the square for a week, decided to have a contest to build figures and statues to symbolize their hope for a new China.
With four thousand years of Buddhist/Confucian history and culture, the figure the students chose was a statue of a woman holding a torch.
The larger version is called Liberty Lighting the World and is in New York harbor.
Cnat have that..freedom? liberty? self rule? thinking on your own?
Send in the tanks!
2007-04-10 15:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chinese tanks ran over them while they were in their tents and squished them
2007-04-10 10:13:06 · answer #4 · answered by foxy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
were they been massacered? do you mean were they BEING massacered?
2007-04-10 10:12:15 · answer #5 · answered by Angry Gilmore 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋