(FILES) This file photo taken on May 21, 1989 shows students sleeping on the ground at Tiananmen Square in Beijing as student sit-ins entered their ninth day during the Beijing Spring movement. - After seven weeks of protests by students and workers demanding democratic changes and the end of corruption, soldiers and tanks chased and killed demonstrators and onlookers in the streets leading to the square. But 30 years after the killings of June 4, 1989, the government still keeps a lid on what really happened and how many died on that fateful day. (Photo by NAOCHIRO KIMURA / AFP)
Beijing: A Chinese state-run daily defended the government’s handling of the Tiananmen protests, saying it “immunised” China against turmoil in a rare editorial about the crackdown on the eve of its 30th anniversary.
Hundreds or by some estimates more than a 1,000 unarmed civilians were killed when troops and tanks were deployed to extinguish the pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing on June 4, 1989.
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