Tiananmen Square Day Essay

The previous day military tanks roared down Chiangan Avenue towards Tiananmen Square. The Communist Chinese army was ordered to eradicate the pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds were killed and thousands arrested during the massacre. As the sun rose the next morning the rattling of the automatic weapons finally began to vanish. Vehicles were burned to ashes and left on the middle of main avenues. Jeff Widener, an American photographer, captured a stunning photograph from the Beijing Hotel gave the world insight of the military oppression. The photograph was taken during pro-democracy protest at Tiananmen Square in Communist China. An unarmed student, commonly known as “Tank Man,” stood bravely in frontof a column of heavy armed tanks, from the …show more content…
After his death millions of students went to mourn at Tiananmen Square day after day. However, the mourning “quickly took a different character (Kluver71)”, students’ attention was re-directed from Hu Yaobang “towards the perceived failures of the Communist Party of China (Kluver 71).” Students argued to become more westernized. The visit of the Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev ,to the student protestors at Tiananmen Square, was a 'brave reformer' was willing to target the Soviet state and the Chinese. For student protestors he had become a hero of the movement (Kulver 76). Students , workers , intellectuals ,police men and even soldiers arrived with the coming of Gorbachev. Students had taken action, they were desperately needing a reform. The Cultural Revolution was also a time to remember for China. China had recently felt the of part of the democracy movement. In addition to protest, student began to go on hunger strikes Martial law was at all closet trying to be avoided (Kuver 80)