Tiananmen, April-June 1989


Can a single human being make a difference? Can he or she stop the forces of evil dead in their tracks?
A courageous young man captured the imagination of the whole world, when he singlehandedly stopped the advance of a tank column by standing in its way...

Support Democracy in China and Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi, a private, non-profit organization, have assembled a pictorial history of Tiananmen 1989.

The heroic fight of thousands of young men and women has played a crucial role in the events that ultimately led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union.
The fight for Freedom and Democracy became unstoppable after June 1989.
The blood shed in Tiananmen Square has come to symbolize the triumph of the spirit over brute force.
Deng Xiaoping, Li Peng and the other butchers of Tiananmen failed to realize that the main casualty of the massacre has been the communist system, which was forever rejected by humankind everywhere...
We are much closer now than ever before to accomplishing our goal of a Free and Democratic China...


The Quest for Freedom - 64 images

The Confrontation - 65 images

The Repression - 57 images

The Massacre - June 4, 1989 - 50 images

The Worldwide Protest - 37 images

The Tiananmen HTML documents, the JPEG images and the main page text have been developed by Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi.
The descriptive text associated with individual images has been provided by Support Democracy in China. Revised September 29, 1996.


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