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Essay On Tiananmen Square Massacre

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Throughout Chinese history, it has been a long time, over twenty five years, since a truly haunting and scary event which was called the Tiananmen Square Protest and Massacre occurred on 4th June 1989. People around the world also know this incident with the other name – the June 4th event. Actually, the protest was initially led by students and then received a wide advocate from laborers with the aim of calling for freedom of press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' control over industry. However, several hard-line leaders in the administration made a ruthless decision that the protest would be quickly suppressed by armed force. Hence, there is no denial that this massacre not only resulted in a large number of deaths but …show more content…

Furthermore, the majority of authorities admitted that the negotiations with the protest which became useless and unable to last longer. More particularly, tougher measures were informed and warned that they would be applied with the purpose of intimidation; however, the protests still expanded day by day. To elaborate, following to Tiananmen Square massacre: Look back on how the crackdown unfolded on 4th June 2014, Leslie wrote that in fact, martial law was enacted on May 20, 1989, and more than two hundred thousand soldiers have been mobilized to the capital; nonetheless, they was blocked in the outskirts by numerous demonstrators. As a result, it might be essential for the Chinese government to react harshly in order to end the certain threatens. According to the author of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, “The government wanted to 'restore order' in the capital.” With this government’s objective, the entire protests terminated after just one night with the suppression from a large number of tanks and

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