Tiananmen Square Massacre Essay

The Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 In 1989, the Chinese government went into a government “Crackdown”. The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 (also known as the June 4th movement) was caused by people innocently protesting for democracy in Beijing. China is running under a communist government and the 1.2 million people who protested for democracy were really aiming for the government to be less controlling. Throughout history, China has had Government issues which greatly affect the society.

Communism is a form of socialism, where everyone is governed equally. The one party country, for over 40 years has been considered a republic, but signs of communism were evident in the economy, politics, and society (Kornai, 1992). The keen showings

The fight for democracy, was not to overthrow the government, but it was to prevent complete government control. The citizens who began this protest (a hundred thousand students, then leading to 1.2 million people all together), initially wanted to feel safe. If democracy was apart of the society there wouldn’t be a reason for the crowded and long protest; but since there is not a democracy, it was important to the students and citizens that they fought for their voices to be heard. The government gave a warning before shooting fire, but that still wasn’t enough. Thus the communism in the country impacted the lives of people, because they wanted to be in complete control of the

The Chinese government, refuses to speak upon the issue or let the Chinese citizen freely search the internet about it. It is known in China that you can’t access what the government doesn’t allow you, and is specific incident is “Not being counted in the history books is ultimately equivalent to being denied an existence, thus forever eradicating her from history.” (Chang, pg. 1). This shows that the people are still to this day are powerless to the government. The communism in China, filters out this incident to further control the