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Open Image ModalA Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square. (credit:JEFF WIDENER/AP)
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Open Image ModalA Chinese security guard gently tries to move a weeping young woman away from the ornate entrance to the Chinese Communist Party headquarters, Zhongnanhai, early on Wednesday, April 19, 1989 in Beijing. University students converged on Zhongnanhai after demonstrating in Tiananmen Square all day on Tuesday. The students tried to storm the gate, but were fought back by Chinese security. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalBeijing residents read a copy of a newspaper printed by students and placed on a streetlight pole near the Beijing University campus describing the student demonstrations on Friday and Saturday at Tiananmen Square, April 24, 1989. The student paper, placed on trees and light-posts around the city is an attempt to counter a government imposed news black-out of student demonstrations. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalFILE - In this May 16, 1989 file photo, Beijing University students relax in Tiananmen Square as their hunger strike for democracy begins its fourth day in Beijing. The legacy of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square looms larger in Hong Kong than in mainland China, where the Communist Party has virtually erased all public mention of it. In this former British colony, hundreds of thousands attend candlelight vigils each anniversary to commemorate the grim end to the Beijing movement that was vanquished before many of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong's streets were even born. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami, File) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalUniversity students hold hands as they sing the Chinese National Anthem during a protest, April 21, 1989 in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalChinese students shout after breaking through a police blockade during a pro-democracy march to Tiananmen Square, Bejing, May 4 1989. (AP Photo/S. Mikami) (credit:S.MIKAMI/AP)
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Open Image ModalChinese police try in vain to contain a huge crowd of student marchers during a pro-reform demonstration in Beijing, China, May 4 1989. (AP Photo/S. Mikami) (credit:S.MIKAMI/AP)
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Open Image ModalJubilant student marchers, arms lined, pass under a bridge lined with local supporters, Thursday, April 27, 1989, Beijing, China. Students in the ten of thousands from several Beijing schools demonstrated in defiance of a government ban. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalChinese marchers are jubilant as they surround and stop an army truck at Tiananmen Square, April 27, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalMore than seven thousand students from local colleges and universities march to Tiananmen Square, Beijing, May 4, 1989, to demonstrate for government reform. (AP Photo/Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalCalling for freedom and democracy, demonstrating students surround policemen near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Thursday afternoon on May 4, 1989. Approximately 100,000 students and workers marched toward the square demanding democratic reforms. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:SADAYUKI MIKAMI/AP)
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Open Image ModalStudents demonstrators scuffle with police as they try to break the guard line to march to the Tiananmen Square on Thursday, April 27, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalStudents of Teachers University raise their hands to appeal to supporting citizens near Tiananmen Square, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalTens of thousand students demonstrators arrived at Tiananmen Square after the 20 kilometer march from their campus, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalA sea of red flags fly above students during a pro-reform demonstration on May 4, 1989 in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo) (credit:x/AP)
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Open Image ModalCommunist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang speaks with fasting university students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to urge them to call off their hunger strike. The strike is in its sixth day. (credit:AP/AP)
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Open Image ModalTiananmen Square is filled with thousands during a pro-democracy rally, Wednesday, May 17, 1989, Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalStudents and police link area to keep crowd of people, many of the relatives of strikers, from Tiananmen Square, where students have been on hunger strike since Saturday, Thursday, May 18, 1989, Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalEmployees of CCTV, Central China Television, flash their press cards as they join student strikers for democracy in Beijing's Tiananmen Square at night, Tuesday, May 16, 1989. (AP Photo/ Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalBeijing youths ride atop a car as they parade to Tiananmen Square for a freedom rally, Wednesday, May 17, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalAbout 3,500 university students from more then a dozen school demand democracy and freedom keep on hunger strike at night, Saturday, May 14, 1989 in Beijing at Tiananmen Square. Students said they would end the hunger strike only when the government agrees to "equal and sincere" talks to their demands. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Miakmi) (credit:Sadayuki Miakmi/AP)
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Open Image ModalUnidentified demonstrators showing victory signs head to Tiananmen Square, Saturday, May 20, 1989, Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalBeijing University students use a monument to the late chairman Mao Tse-Tung at his tomb in Tiananmen Square to press their case for democratic reforms in Beijing, Friday, May 19, 1989. The picture hanging on the statue is the late Premier Chou En-Lai. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami) (credit:Sadayuki Mikami/AP)
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Open Image ModalA group of protesters waving red flags emerge from the Gate of Heavenly Peace beneath the famous portrait of Chairman Mao which was splattered with paint during the continuing demonstration in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Tuesday, March 23, 1989. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalA Chinese military helicopter drops leaflets to students holding Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 22, 1989. The students face an ultimatum to abandon the square or be forced out by the military. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalA convey of soldiers from the Peoples' Liberation Army is completely engulfed by demonstrators who stopped the Tiananmen Square bound troops by blocking the road with the bus in the foreground, May 21, 1989, Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer) (credit:Jim Palmer/AP)
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Open Image ModalA student occupying Beijing's Tiananmen Square waits for the expected arrival of troops and teargas with protective cellophane taped over his eyes, May 22, 1989. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer) (credit:Jim Palmer/AP)
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Open Image ModalA Beijing university student parades through Tiananmen Square during a rally after the student leaders decided to continue their occupation of the square, May 23, 1989. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer) (credit:Jim Palmer/AP)
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Open Image ModalThis is a May 27, 1989 photo of student leader Wang Dan in Tiananmen Square Beijing calling for a city wide march. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:MARK AVERY/AP)
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Open Image ModalUniversity students rest in Tainanmen Square, Beijing, on May 26, 1989, wher their strike for government reforms is in its 13th day. (AP Photo/Staff/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalStudents holding Beijing's Tiananmen Square sleep early on May 22, 1989, as the government's ultimatum to clear the square by dawn passes without incident. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalTwo Beijing university students use one another as pillows to get some sleep in Tiananmen Square, May 23, 1989. They have occupied the square for 10 days. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer) (credit:Jim Palmer/AP)
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Open Image ModalStudents mill around in Tainanmen Square, Beijing, May 25, 1989, during their thirteenth day of their strike for democracy. (AP Photo/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalStudents rest in the litter of Tiananmen Square, Beijing, May 28, 1989, as their strike for government reform enters its third week. (AP Photo/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA group of students rest before their tattered tents in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on May 27, 1989, where thousands of students continue their sit-in protest to press the government for political reforms. (AP Photo/Staff/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalStreet workers work to keep pace with the piles of debris in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, May 28, 1989, where thousands of university students are on strike for government reforms. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA man who identified himself as a former political prisoner relates his experiences to striking students in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on May 28, 1989. Students have held the square in a democracy demonstration for more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Staff/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalPeople grab for copies of a student newsletter printed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on May 31, 1989. News from any source is welcome in China because of the government censorship of the official press. (AP Photo/Staff/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalTens of thousands of students march from Tiananmen Square during a rally in Beijing, on May 28, 1989. In the background is the gate to the Forbidden City. (AP Photo/Staff/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalThe portrait of Mao Tse-tung overlooking Tiananmen Square faces off a statue erected in the square May 30, 1989. The statue was dubbed "The Goddess of Democracy" by students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, who modeled it after the Statue of Liberty. (credit:JEFF WIDENER/AP)
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Open Image ModalA policeman tries to disperse demonstrating students from the entrance of police headquarters in Beijing, May 30, 1989. About 1,000 students and workers gathered to protest the alleged arrests of labor leaders sympathetic to the student movement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalSome 1,000 students and workers rally at Beijing police headquarters, May 30, 1989, to protest the alleged arrests of labor leaders sympathetic to the students' pro- democracy struggle. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalA young Chinese girl dances on Tiananmen Square about June 1, 1989, as pro-democracy protesters continued to occupy the square. Hundreds were killed a few days later in violent clashes between the demonstrators and government troops. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalBeijing University students listen as an unidentified strike spokesman details plans for a rally in Tiananmen Square, which they have occupied for the last two weeks, Sunday, May 28, 1989, Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA student leader from the Political Science and Law University leads a victory cheer as hundreds of students realize they have successfully disrupted a officially sponsored pro-government rally at the Chang Ping Bicycle Stadium outside Beijing, June 1, 1989. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalA huge crowd gathers at a Beijing intersection where residents used a bus as a roadblock to keep troops from advancing toward Tiananmen Square in this June 3, 1989 photo. Friday June 4, 1999 is the 10th anniversary of the military assault on pro-democracy protestors who had occupied the square for seven weeks. Hundreds died in the early hours of June 4, 1989 when troops shot their way through Beijing's streets to retake the square. (credit:JEFF WIDENER/AP)
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Open Image ModalA woman soldier sings among pro-democracy protesters occupying Beijing's Tiananmen Square, about June 2, 1989. Police and military would occasionally mix with protesters in an attempt to keep the demonstration peaceful. In the early morning hours of June 4, 1989, soldiers overran the square, leaving hundreds dead overnight. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 3, 1989. Pro-democracy protesters had been occupying Tiananmen Square for weeks. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA huge crowd gathers to watch as students protesters burn copies of Beijing Daily in retaliation for anti-student articles in front of the newspaper’s offices on Friday, June 2, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA student from Beijing Normal University reads a pro-democracy statement to Chinese troops trapped by Beijing residents after being stopped on their way to Tiananmen Square in this June 3, 1989 photo. Friday June 4, 1999 is the 10th anniversary of the military assault on pro-democracy protesters who had occupied the square for seven weeks. Hundreds died in the early hours of June 4, 1989 when troops shot their way through Beijing's streets to retake the square. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:MARK AVERY/AP)
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Open Image ModalA man tries to pull a Chinese soldier away from his comrades as thousands of Beijing's citizens turned out to block thousands of troops on their way towards Tiananmen Square early Saturday morning, June 3, 1989. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalAn anti-government protester in Beijing holds a rifle in a bus window, June 3, 1989. Pro-democracy protesters had been occupying Tiananmen Square for weeks; hundreds died that night and the following morning in clashes with Chinese troops. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalThe bodies of dead civilians lie among mangled bicycles near Beijing's Tiananmen Square early June 4, 1989. Tanks and soldiers stormed the area overnight, bringing a violent end to student demonstrations for democratic reform in China. (AP Photo) (credit:AP/AP)
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Open Image ModalA student protester puts barricades in the path of an already burning armored personnel carrier that rammed through student lines during an army attack on anti-government demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, early June 4, 1989. A govenment soldier who escaped the armored vehicle was killed by deomstrators. Pro-democracy protesters occupied the square for seven weeks; hundreds died in the early hours of June 4, 1989 when troops shot their way through Beijing's streets to retake the square. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:JEFF WIDENER/AP)
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Open Image ModalA concerned group of students and professionals listen to reports of conditions in Beijing as they sit in front of the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles, June 3, 1989. The protestors played a recording of what they said were telephone conversations with relatives and friends in Beijing who witnessed the army sweep of Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) (credit:Mark J. Terrill/AP)
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Open Image ModalCivilians hold rocks as they stand on a government armored vehicle near Chang'an Boulevard in Beijing, early June 4, 1989. Violence escalated between pro-democracy protesters and Chinese troops, leaving hundreds dead overnight. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalLocal residents loaded the wounded people on a rickshaw flatbed shortly after PLA soldiers opened fire on a crowd in this June 4, 1989 photo. On Friday, it will be 10 years since the military assault that killed hundreds and ended seven weeks of protests centered on Tiananmen Square.(AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing) (credit:LIU HEUNG SHING/AP)
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Open Image ModalA crowd of Chinese opens hole to give a busload of foreign tourists a view of a dead body Monday morning, June 5, 1989, of victim of the first night of violence as People's Liberation Army troops shot their way into Tiananmen Square to crush pro-democracy protests. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)
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Open Image ModalChinese troops and tanks gather in Beijing, June 5, 1989, one day after the military crackdown that ended a seven week pro-democracy demonstration on Tiananmen Square. Hundreds were killed in the early morning hours of June 4. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA young man swings on the barrel of a disabled tank, as others satisfy their curiosity on a street in Beijing, China, June 9, 1989. The tank was disabled when People's Liberation Army soldiers swept through Tiananmen Square last week. (AP Photo/Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalFILE- In this file photo take June 5, 1989, people on Chang'an Boulevard hold up a photo that they described as dead victims of the violence against pro-democracy protesters on Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Hundreds had been killed in the early morning hours of June 4, in clashes with Chinese soldiers. Mothers of some of those killed in the bloody crackdown on China's 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement say they have lived through 27 years of state-led "terror and suffocation" and vow to continue pushing for the truth ahead of this weekend's anniversary of the events. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener, FIle) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA youth swings on the barrel of a disabled tank as others satisfy their curiosity on a Beijing street, June 9, 1989. The tank was disabled when People's Liberation Army soldiers swept through Tiananmen Square last week. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener) (credit:Jeff Widener/AP)
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Open Image ModalA Peoples Liberation Army truck full of troops moves east down Changan Blvd at the head of a column of several hundred trucks broadcasting the message to residents, "People's Liberation Army loves the People," Wednesday, June 7, 1989, Beijing, China. Very soon thereafter troops in succeeding trucks began firing indiscriminately in the air and into the foreign diplomatic compound from which this photo was made. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) (credit:Mark Avery/AP)