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Tiananmen remembered - Wu'er Kaixi - 03 June 09
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Jun 5 09
Witnessed: 1013 times
Regions: China
Issues: Mass killings, Police brutality, Violence
Tags: censorship, freedom of expression, government corruption, massacre, Tiananmen Square
Wu'er Kaixi is one of the best-known student leaders of the Tiananmen protests. In a televised meeting with Li Peng, the then Chinese prime minister, he cut the premier off and confronted him with the students' demands.
He fled to France, then studied at Harvard University in the US, before emigrating to Taiwan. He talks to Al Jazeera about the events of June 3 and 4 1989.
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