Tiananmen Massacre: 18 years ago

Eighteen years ago, when CNN really was a great news station, I watched events unfold on live TV at Tiananmen Square.

It started in hope...

(photo from Asianamericans.com)

But ended in the kind of massacre one would expect from a dictatorship like China...

(Photo from CBC news, Canada)

Eighteen years ago today.

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