It was the morning of June 5, 1989, the day after Chinese troops massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. In the days leading up to the June 4 atrocities, as many as a million people were gathering every day in Tiananmen Square. In China, the surveillance state’s vast censorship apparatus has ensured that most people have never seen the photograph. Every year around the anniversary, police round up 1980s-era activists and ship them out of Beijing for a few days. In November 1994, prime minister Jean Chrétien led the largest foreign trade mission to China since Tiananmen.

Source: National Post May 15, 2019 16:52 UTC