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and good evening.

It is now Sunday morning in Beijing

and Chinese army troops have retaken Tiananmen Square where

thousands of demonstrators have been camped for the last three weeks. The Army moved in with

a vengeance at some points firing into the crowd before they actually got to the

square. By some counts more than a hundred people dead, hundreds more are injured.

That was 35 years ago this week. June 4, 1989, when the Chinese government began its

crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The protest had began in April of 1989 following the death of Hu Yauban, a former Chinese Communist Party general secretary who had encouraged democratic reforms in the country.

He was forced to resign in 1987.

And that further inflamed demand for reforms

by university students who were already frustrated with high inflation, corruption, and limits to political freedom.

By spring of 1989, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets around China. The focus of the world's

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