Episode #157 -- Tienanmen Square Crackdown

It Was 20 Years Ago Today

English - June 04, 2009 06:27 - 5 minutes - 4.61 MB - ★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Thursday, June 4, 2009. Twenty years ago today, the Chinese government moved to crack down on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tienanmen Square. I talk about the crackdown on that day, and the efforts of the Chinese government to prevent its people from even knowing about what really happened in Tienanmen Square twenty years ago.