Tiananmen Square massacre took place the night between 3 and 4 June 1989.
30 years ago the tanks of the Chinese People's Liberation Army killed an unspecified number of people in the Beijing square, putting a tragic end to protests led by students, intellectuals and workers demanding democracy and respect for human rights in the country.
Guo Jian was one of the thousands of people who participated in the protests. He told SBS students had high hopes that the protests could lead to a change, until the night of June 4th.
"When we got to the front we noticed that there was blood everywhere on the ground, it was this thick. In the hospital there was swarms of people, injured and dead all inside".
The dramatic outcome of the protests and the total number of victims (dead, injured and arrested) is still uncertain today and the event itself is still taboo in China.
The protest had begun a month and a half earlier, explained local correspondent Gabriele Battaglia, who described the event leading to the massacre and what echo does the event in today's China.
