Beijing. June 4 is a very special day for Chinese people. In 1989, the ruthless Communist government of China mounted tanks on thousands of students who were protesting. There are different figures, official and unofficial, about the people who died in the incident. According to the Chinese government, about 300 people died in the incident, while Europe believes that more than ten thousand people were killed in it. At the same time, the Chinese believe that 3 thousand people died in it.
The incident began with the death of Hu Yaobang, a moderate leader of the Communist Party. Hu had ascended to the highest office of the Communist Party of China. He was the party’s chairman there from 1981-1982 and then general secretary of the party there from 1982-87. Hu’s political stature and status also increased significantly after Mao’s death. In his political career, he reformed China in many ways. There they wanted to make the country and the government completely transparent. In addition, he wanted China’s relations with its neighbors to be unquestionably better. But this side of him was not liked by other party leaders. Due to this, when there was a large-scale student demonstration in China in 1987, his opponents started blaming him for this. He resigned from the post of general secretary of the party. pressure was exerted.
When he died of a heart attack on 15 April 1989, the party treated him very normally. Angered by this, his supporters gathered in large numbers at Tiananmen Square and submitted a memorandum to the government, raising slogans against the government, demanding that his last rites should be performed keeping it under the ambit of national mourning and party leaders should attend it. However, this did not have any effect and no leader had reached even to bid him a final farewell. After the incident, Hu’s widow also accused Communist Party leaders of ignoring and disregarding her. He said the same people were behind Hu’s death.
Protesters against the government erected the Statue of Democracy at Tiananmen Square on May 30. On June 2, the army was ordered to remove all protesters from the square on June 3 by imposing martial law on all sides. The army fired indiscriminately at the protesters, causing a stampede. After this incident, the anger of the people of China had flared up against the government. The government was furiously outraged by these demonstrations and to control them, they took down the army and tanks on the streets. The army, police behaved brutally on the protesters. Thousands of people died in this incident.
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