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"From behind a burning bus barricade Saturday night comes the gunfire of soldiers advancing toward Tiananmen Square.".(1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre)
"From behind a burning bus barricade Saturday night comes the gunfire of soldiers advancing toward Tiananmen Square." So 20 years ago Claudia Rosett of the Wall Street Journal began her account of what is now remembered in China as "June 4." "People snatch up bricks and bottles, their only weapons against the guns of their country's own army.... Bullets ricochet off the stone walls that line the road." Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms had been accompanied by a measure of free speech, but by the spring of 1989, students, workers, and ordinary people had taken it to ...
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