Chinese Protesters Mark 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square
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Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
On June 4, 1989 Chinese soldiers and tanks rolled into the center of Beijing, suppressing the country's pro-democracy movement and killing scores of protesters. Twenty years later, former student leaders and Chinese immigrants gathered in Washington to mark the occasion. As VOA's Julia Ritchey reports, many have not lost hope that democratic reform will one day come to China