1989 Tiananmen Square protests June 2009, the BBC aired the documentary "Kate Adie returns to Tiananmen" in which documented reporter Kate Adie's return to China, where Adie recalls the events she witnessed in 1989. In May 1998, Indonesian general Prabowo Subianto threatened "Tiananmen Square massacre" in Jakarta to suppress student-led demonstrations against President Suharto. CNN news anchor Kyra Phillips drew criticism in March 2006 when she compared the 2006 youth protests in France, in which it was later determined that no one was killed, to the Tiananmen Square protests, saying: "Sort of brings back memories of Tiananmen Square, when you saw these activists in
Students' hunger strike at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests Students' hunger strike at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests The first of two student hunger strikes of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 began on May 13, 1989, in Beijing. The students said that they were willing to risk their lives to gain the government's attention. They believed that because plans were in place for the grand welcoming of Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union, on May 15, at Tiananmen Square, the government would respond. Although the students gained a dialogue session with the government on May 14, no rewards materialized. The Chinese Communist Party did not heed