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October 6, 2005
Story behind Tiananmen Square photo
In May, 1989, as a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine, I was sent to Beijing where daily student protests had continued to grow in size.
Two of the magazine's other photographers, Peter Turnley and Andy Hernandez, had already put in some time there. A few days after I turned up, the protests seemed to have peaked out. Protest crowds and activity thinned to such a degree that a lot of the photographers and writers began to head back to their respective bases in the Asian region.
The protesters disabled the APC, tore its crew from the vehicle, killed them, and torched the vehicle I was told by Newsweek to stay on. On the evening of 3 June, after a day of tense confrontations between the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the demonstrators, the army began to encircle the inner city and eventually began to try to move tanks and Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) down into the heart of Tiananmen Square.
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Posted by thdyck on October 6, 2005
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