Photo Caption: This unknown Chinese youth in photo stood alone to block a line of tanks heading to Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. In the spring of 1989, more than one million Chinese students and workers occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square and began the largest political protest in communist China's history.
Six weeks of protests ended with the Beijing massacre of 3-4 June.
Here the BBC charts the events that led to the deadly crackdown - using archive audio and video from the time.
Full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8057148.stm
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