Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
BBC News - June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre
Definition of Bravery
The Deaths
Statistics and estimates of deaths at the hands of the People's Republic of China generated from different groups indicate:
4,000 to 6,000 civilians killed - Edward Timperlake.
2,600 had officially died by the morning of June 4 (later denied) - the Chinese Red Cross. An unnamed Chinese Red Cross official estimated that, in total, 5,000 people killed and 30,000 injured.
1,000 deaths - Amnesty International
7,000 deaths (6,000 civilians and 1,000 soldiers) - NATO intelligence.
10,000 deaths in total - Soviet Bloc estimates.
in excess of 3,700 killed, excluding disappearance or secret deaths and those denied of medical treatment - PLA defector citing a document circulating among officers.
186 named individuals confirmed dead as at the end of June 2006 - Professor Ding Zilin.
For something more current please read this: Repression continues in China, six months before Olympic Games
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