Below are pictures of the student movement and the actions taken by the Chinese Government when the students refused to end their peaceful demonstration.

May 30, 1989, the day the Goddess of Democracy was raised in Tiananmen Square

The Goddess of Democracy Statue, built by students at the end of May, 1989. It took them only two days to build out of plaster and styrofoam.

An injured student, after the crackdown began.

On June 5, 1989, a lone man stops a fleet of tanks.