On This Day: May 13, 1989 - Students in Beijing Began Hunger Strike in Tiananmen Square

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On This Day: May 13, 1989 - Students in Beijing Began Hunger Strike in Tiananmen Square.

On this day May 13, 1989, thousands of Chinese students began a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in Beijing as part of a growing pro democracy movement. The demonstration, led primarily by university students, called for political reform, freedom of speech, government accountability and an end to widespread corruption within the Chinese Communist Party.

The hunger strike was launched just days before a scheduled state visit from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, drawing international...
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