We’re adding news stories, interviews, images, and more commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
News
- Chinese police are cracking down today in order to avoid protests. Foreign journalists are not allowed in the country, and an AFP TV reporter was forced to delete footage from their camera by police, AFP.
- Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong to hold a vigil for victims. Organizers estimate as many as 150,000 attended, Al Jazeera. BBC News has a video of the vigil here.
- Frontline’s timeline of the events in 1989.
Interviews
- NYT’s Nicholas D. Kristof, who won a Pulitizer for his coverage of the 1989 massacre in China, reflects on the anniversary here. Nicholas also answers readers’ questions.
- Jeff Widener, the man who took the famous “Tank Man” photo, blogs for the Huffington Post on the anniversary.
- Five reporters who took photos of “Tank Man,” the unknown man who stood in front of a line of tanks, share their experiences of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Read it here.
Photos
- CNN’s John Vause blocked from filming in Tiananmen by an umbrella.
- Hong Kong vigil pictures, BBC News.
