The Tienanmen Square protest in China was a student led protest which lasted for over one month. It is also known under the names "June 4th incident" or "'89 democracy movement". The protest was stopped on June 4th by military enforcement. Martial law was declared and as many as 300.000 troops were mobilized in Beijing. Troops with assault riffles and tanks started shooting the unarmed civilians who tried to block the army's entrance to Tienanmen square and somewhere between hundreds and thousands of civilians were killed. In the aftermath of the incident were hundreds of students arrested, foreign journalists expelled and the media controlled in China. Western countries repayed with arms embargo and economic sanctions. Discussion of the incident is still not legal in China.
this powerful picture became the image of the incident. By Published by The Associated Press, originally photographed by Jeff Widener, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=239713
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