More than a million of Chinese workers filled the streets of Beijing on May 18, 1989 to support the students’ pro-democracy movement and their hunger strike that started six days ago during Beijing Spring movement. They now want the resignation of Deng Xiaoping. A series of pro-democracy protests was sparked by the April 15 death of former communist party leader Hu Yaobang. In a show of force, 04 June, China leaders vented their fury and frustration on student dissidents and their pro-democracy supporters. Several hundred people have been killed and thousands wounded when soldiers moved on Tiananmen Square during a violent military crackdown ending six weeks of student demonstrations, known as the Beijing Spring movement. (Photo by CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images)