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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

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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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Personal Accounts

Tourists visit Tiananmen Square during the May Day holiday in Beijing May 1, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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Children and their teachers wave flags from a window of a kindergarten classroom to welcome the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay in Taizhou, Jiangsu province May 26, 2008. REUTERS/Patty Chen

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A participant waves his fist in front of a Chinese national flag to cheer for Sichuan before three minutes of mourning for the Sichuan earthquake victims at Tiananmen Square in Beijing May 12, 2009. REUTERS/Christina Hu

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In pictures

Workmen try to drape the portrait of Mao Tse-Tung, in Tiananmen Square, China on May 23, 1989. REUTERS/Ed Nachtrieb

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20 years since Tiananmen

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

A boy poses near policemen in front of the Forbidden City ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 5, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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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