The Tian Men Incident

The Tian Men incident happened in Beijing, April 27 1989. Thousands of students were involved; it lasted for 62 days and finished on June 28.

On April 27 1989, thousands of students flocked into Tian men square protesting. The students were demanding a revolution they wanted a Democracy because they thought it would improve society.

The government refused to meet the student’s leaders. Also they published an article that was full of lies. The article said that the students against the communists and were the enemy of the state. This made the students angry and they flocked back into the square with three new demands. First they wanted the government to agree to talk to them as equals. Second they wanted the government to make an apology for the students that had been beaten up the week before. Third, they demand that the news reports stop lying about them. In the next few days the government continued to ignore the student’s demands. On June 4, armed troops fired at the students, some of the students got away, but many were killed. For the next few days, troops searched for the students and foreign news reporters who might have been at Tian Men Square. If any of them were found, they would have been arrested and even shot.

Many of the students tried to help the foreign reporters to smuggle their recordings to the outside world the country, to show the world the truth.

Some of the records made it out of the country, but it was too late, hundreds of people had been killed.