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Three Chinese dissidents (L-R) Yu Zhijian, Yu Dongyue and Lu Decheng pose beside a photograph of the defaced Chairman Mao portrait, which they threw dye-filled eggs at during the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, in Washington, June 2, 2009. Three Chinese dissidents who spent much of the past 20 years behind bars for marring Mao Zedong's portrait at Tiananmen Square said the students who led that movement have failed to continue the struggle. Picture taken June 2, 2009.   REUTERS/Jim Young

Protesters in U.S. lament stunted movement

Three Chinese dissidents who spent much of the past 20 years behind bars for marring Mao Zedong's portrait at Tiananmen Square said the students who led that movement have failed to continue the struggle.  Full Article 

Former reformist Communist Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang reads a newspaper in the garden of his home in central Beijing in this undated photo taken in 1994. The memoirs of China's late Communist Party chief who was sacked in 1989 for sympathising with student protesters will give the Party plenty to think about when deciding the country's political future, his one-time top aide said.  REUTERS/New Century Media and Consulting Co., Ltd.

Memoirs give Party food for thought

Two decades after his downfall, reformist leader Zhao Ziyang has shattered the official silence cloaking the Tiananmen crackdown in memoirs he recorded in secret under house arrest.  Full Article | Related Story 

 

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20 years since Tiananmen

A visual chronology of events at Beijing's Tiananmen Square since the 1989 crackdown.  Slideshow 

 
China's youth

A look at the new generation of Chinese, who have grown up in a world starkly different both economically and politically from the one their parents grew up in.  Slideshow 

 
Remembering Tiananmen

Hong Kong commemorates those who died during the military crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.  Slideshow 

Tight security on anniversary

There was tight security on the 20th anniversary of a military crackdown on Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests on Thursday.  Video 

 
Dissident recalls Tiananmen

Wang Dan, a former student activist in China, recalls the crackdown on Tiananmen Square.  Video