the government's response to the protest in tiananmen square resulted in martial law.
the government's response to the protest in tiananmen square resulted in martial law.
the government's response to the protest in tiananmen square resulted in?
martial law
the tiananmen square protests, commonly known in mainland china as the june fourth incident (chinese: , "liùsì shìjiàn"), were student-led demonstrations held in tiananmen square in beijing during 1989. the popular national movement inspired by the beijing protests is sometimes called the '89 democracy movement (chinese: , "bājiǔ mínyùn"). the protests started on 15 april and were forcibly suppressed on 4 june when the government declared martial law and sent the military to occupy central parts of beijing. in what became known as the tiananmen square massacre (chinese: ), troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into tiananmen square. estimates of the death toll vary from several hundreds to several thousands, with thousands more wounded.
1989 tiananmen square protests
in the decades since the tiananmen square protests the ccp has attempted to prevent any remembrance of the protest movement and the subsequent crackdown. while the government initially tried to justify its suppression of the protest, releasing official statements and creating museum exhibits on the events of june 3–5, it now denies that such suppression ever occurred. in 2011, an opinion piece, "tiananmen square a myth", was published in china daily, the ccp's english-language newspaper. the article claims that, "when eventually troops were sent in to clear the [tiananmen] square, the demonstrations were already ending. but by this time the western media were there in force, keen to grab any story they could." there is no mention of a counterrevolutionary rebellion, as earlier government accounts refer to. as louisa lim notes in her book, "the people's republic of amnesia: tiananmen revisited", many young chinese know almost nothing of the tiananmen square protests. in an informal survey, lim showed the iconic photo of tank man to 100 chinese university students; only 15 correctly identified it as being an image of tiananmen square. perry link, a chinese language and literature scholar, writes, "the story of the massacre is banned from textbooks, the media, and all other public contexts." in 2014, gu yimin, a chinese activist, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to hold a march on the anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. after filing a request to hold the march in 2013, he was charged with "inciting subversion of state power." activist groups such as the tiananmen mothers have faced intense government surveillance for their attempts to hold the ccp accountable for the losses of their family members.
reactions to the 1989 tiananmen square protests