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Title:China: Troops Crush Pro-Democracy Demonstration by Force
Date:3rd June 1989
Summary:Pro-democracy demonstrations by Chinese students were halted abruptly on June 3 when soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) took control of central Peking by force. Thousands of unarmed students and civilians were killed according to the many Western journalists present although subsequent Chinese accounts sought to deny this.
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Location:CHINA PEKING
Reuters ID:LDL0011OYBSSN
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