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<text id=89TT1607>
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<title>
June 19, 1989: China's Dark Hours
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
June 19, 1989 Revolt Against Communism
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
COMMUNISM, Page 14
China's Dark Hours
</hdr><body>
<p> In the tense early-morning hours of June 4, hope died and
fear was born. Thousands of combat troops stormed Tiananmen
Square, transforming the Woodstock-like encampment of young
students calling for democracy into the bloodiest killing ground
in Communist China's history. The images of defiance and
devastation, the voices of determination and despair, shook the
world. Here, protesters attacked troops with poles and rocks.
There, a student lurched, his dazed face soaked with blood.
Everywhere, the bodies fell, how many is still not known, while
fires blazed, signaling the dawn of China's uncertain new world.
</p>
<p> "Our call for democracy has reached the living rooms of
largely apolitical people. It has planted seeds of the ideas of
freedom and democracy and human rights."
</p>
<p> -- A student leader
</p>
<p> "We are not afraid to die. But we have already lost a lot
of blood. We must leave the square."
</p>
<p> -- Hou Dejian, a popular songwriter
</p>
<p> "The sound of gunfire terrified me, but the sight of
wounded people made me very angry. The massacre was a very
cynical idea."
</p>
<p> -- A scholar
</p>
<p> "Tell the United Nations, tell the world what has happened
in China. Tell them that the Chinese government is killing the
Chinese people."
</p>
<p> -- A worker
</p>
<p> "China is dead."
</p>
<p> -- A youth
</p>
</body></article>
</text>