Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
"No one knows for sure how many people died at Tiananmen Square. Reports are as high as several thousand. The Chinese government says fewer than than 250 were killed, including soldiers.
The events of that June on Tiananmen Square have been conspicuously missing from China’s history books."
Here are eyewitness accounts from Janet Wilson in the Ottawa Citizen.
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