Tiananmen Square
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| Address | Dongcheng, China, 100006 |
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| Area | 44 |
| Date | 15 April |
| 4 June 1989 | |
| Death(s) | No precise figures exist, estimates vary from hundreds to several thousand (see death toll section) |
| Did you know | Tiananmen Square is a city square in Beijing, China, most well-known for the protests that occurred in 1989 that resulted in the massacre of thousands of civilians. |
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| ID | 729579 |
About Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square is a city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City.
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... " Entering the date of the Tiananmen Square crackdown (4 June 1989), or the name of a jailed former senior Communist Party figure (Bo Xilai), or the name of China s Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died in prison (Liu Xiaobo) also draw the response: " Let s talk about something else"...
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