The BBC has published memories of people affected by the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, including a politician, student demonstrators, the mother of a killed demonstrator, and a reporter.
Protest organiser Wu’er Kaixi fled China following the demonstration, and remains a political commentator and democracy activist.
Ding Zilin is one of hundreds of parents whose children were killed in the Tiananmen massacre…
Jeff Widener took the image of the lone Tiananmen protester who stood in front of a convoy of tanks – probably the most iconic image of the crackdown.
See past CDT posts on the Tiananmen Massacre.