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Liberation Monument

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Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Liberation Monument
Address:
No.29 Gongli Street, Xinhua District, Shijiazhuang 050004, China

During the 1989 student demonstrations in Beijing, the Chinese People's Liberation Army played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. The scale of the military's mobilization for a domestic event and degree of bloodshed inflicted against civilians were unprecedented both in the history of the People's Republic and the history of Beijing, a city with a tradition of popular protests against ruling authorities dating back to the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The subject of the Tiananmen protests in general and the military's role in the crackdown remains forbidden from public discussion in China. The killings in Beijing continue to taint the legacies of the party elders, led by Deng Xiaoping, and weigh on the generation of leaders whose careers advanced as their more moderate colleagues were purged or sidelined at the time. Within China, the role of the military in 1989 remains a subject of private discussion within the ranks of the party leadership and PLA.
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