Tiananmen hunger strikes
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Tiananmen hunger strikes
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The first of two student hunger strikes during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre began on May 13, 1989, in Beijing. The students said that they were willing to risk their lives to gain the government's attention. They believed that because plans were in place for the grand welcoming of Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on May 15, at Tiananmen Square, the government would respond. Although the students gained a dialogue session with
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Part of the 1989 protest against the CCP
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_hunger_strikes
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2016-04-11T16:04:07Z
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2024-09-12T01:01:34Z
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