Migrants look back on Tiananmen crackdown

4 Jun 2009, 11:44 am   -   Source: SBS, Cassandra Hill
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Some of the Tiananmen Square protesters migrated to Australia. SBS talks to some of them about the historic events of 1989.

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Twenty years ago, the Chinese government ordered its military to break up protests by thousands of students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands were killed as martial law was declared, in what the Chinese government says was necessary action to calm the political storm, amid challenges to communism in Eastern Europe.

Some of the protestors eventually migrated to Australia.

This week they look back on events and consider China's future.

One of them, Ren Xuebing, was a photographer for an IT magazine in 1989. When students gathered in Tiananmen Square, his instinct was to start taking pictures.

 

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