Tiananmen Square - 1989 revisited - part 23

The 23rd part in a PBS piece published in 2001 by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link:

June 4 (3 of 4)

"[A]fter a little while, like 40 minutes, people would gather up their nerve again and would crawl back to the corner and start screaming at the soldiers, and then the commander would eventually give another signal … and they'd shoot more in the backs," remembers journalist Jan Wong, who watched it all from her hotel room above the boulevard. "And this went on more than half a dozen times in the day." When rescue workers try to approach the street to remove the wounded, they, too, are shot.

Tim White