Tiananmen Square massacre in Pictures

A look at the bloody military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests of 1989.Rows of troops advanced slowly, shooting directly into the crowd' China's Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, a pro-democracy movement which ended on 4 June 1989 with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government and the shooting of several hundred or possibly thousands of civilians by soldiers.China is seeking to quell all discussion of the massacre by locking up, charging or harassing artists, scholars, lawyers, bloggers and relatives of victims. More than a million students occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square and began the largest political protest in the history of communist China. Six weeks of demonstrations ended with a night of bloodshed on 3 June.