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Tiananmen: Shouts That Turned To Silence [podcast 5 min 27 sec]

Two decades ago, the world watched as thousands of Chinese students and their supporters occupied Tiananmen Square for weeks demanding democracy — and then were violently removed on June 4, 1989, by the Chinese military. NPR's western bureau chief, Alisa Joyce Barba, was a TV producer in Beijing at that time.
Read entire article at NPR Weekend Edition Sunday