Tiananmen Square Massacre Research Paper
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square is in the centre of Beijing. It was the main grounds for protesters in 1989. Students travelled across the country to Tiananmen Square to protest against the Communist government’s corruptions for more freedom. Thousands of students attended to fight for their rights of freedom and education etc. On the 4th of June 1989, the Chinese government took action in protecting their power from the people and the peace in their country. They sent in the People’s Liberation Army to try and control the scene. Some accounts say that the soldiers started the shooting and others say that they only retaliated to protect themselves. There are many different accounts of what actually happened, these accounts are written …show more content…
In most accounts by the Chinese government, the protesters and the civilians in Beijing were made to sound like they started all the violence and insulted, killed and injured some of the soldiers that were trying to protect the people. I think the government made the people of China sound terrible and violent in order to keep the people’s trust in them and so they could keep their power. It was for a sense of security within their country. If the people of China knew that their army had orders to turn against them, there would be chaos all over the country as the people would have lost their faith and their trust in the government.
According to one student leaders account, Chai Ling, (she was the commander-in-chief of the Protect Tiananmen Square headquarters) the first sign of any violence in Tiananmen Square was when a police jeep rammed into four pedestrians, killing three of them. On June the 3rd, at Xinhuaman Gate (near Tiananmen Square), many soldiers were seen severely beating students and civilians. “Some students standing atop passing cars shouted, ‘The people’s police love the people, the people’s police should not beat people up’. One of the students had shouted just one sentence when a soldier rushed forward and kicked him in the stomach saying, ‘Who the hell loves you?’ The student doubled and fell to the
Tiananmen Square is in the centre of Beijing. It was the main grounds for protesters in 1989. Students travelled across the country to Tiananmen Square to protest against the Communist government’s corruptions for more freedom. Thousands of students attended to fight for their rights of freedom and education etc. On the 4th of June 1989, the Chinese government took action in protecting their power from the people and the peace in their country. They sent in the People’s Liberation Army to try and control the scene. Some accounts say that the soldiers started the shooting and others say that they only retaliated to protect themselves. There are many different accounts of what actually happened, these accounts are written …show more content…
In most accounts by the Chinese government, the protesters and the civilians in Beijing were made to sound like they started all the violence and insulted, killed and injured some of the soldiers that were trying to protect the people. I think the government made the people of China sound terrible and violent in order to keep the people’s trust in them and so they could keep their power. It was for a sense of security within their country. If the people of China knew that their army had orders to turn against them, there would be chaos all over the country as the people would have lost their faith and their trust in the government.
According to one student leaders account, Chai Ling, (she was the commander-in-chief of the Protect Tiananmen Square headquarters) the first sign of any violence in Tiananmen Square was when a police jeep rammed into four pedestrians, killing three of them. On June the 3rd, at Xinhuaman Gate (near Tiananmen Square), many soldiers were seen severely beating students and civilians. “Some students standing atop passing cars shouted, ‘The people’s police love the people, the people’s police should not beat people up’. One of the students had shouted just one sentence when a soldier rushed forward and kicked him in the stomach saying, ‘Who the hell loves you?’ The student doubled and fell to the