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Pain remains 30 years on from Tiananmen

A student protester puts barricades in the path of an already burning armoured personnel carrier during anti-government protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

A protester puts barricades in the path of a burning armoured personnel carrier during 1989 anti-government protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Source: AAP

Three decades after the Chinese government brutally crushed a student-led demonstration in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, two adversaries at the time, are now united by a desire to keep the memory of the massacre alive.



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