This year marks the 37th anniversary of the “June 4th” incident. Epoch Times has exclusively obtained over two thousand never-before-seen historical photos of the “June 4th” event, allowing those years that were fiercely covered up and attempted to be erased by the Chinese Communist Party to see the light of day once again.
In the spring and summer of 1989, a student democratic movement that shook the world ignited in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, quickly spreading across China. Millions of students and citizens took to the streets to express their demands for opposing corruption, and for democracy and freedom in a peaceful and rational way. However, the Chinese Communist Party secretively mobilized a large number of regular troops and launched a comprehensive crackdown on civilians in the early hours of June 4th, using tanks and machine guns. According to unofficial statistics, the CCP shot and killed thousands to tens of thousands of people.
An official photographer who was present at the scene at that time fully documented this history, and the massive rolls of film he took have been sealed for 37 years. In the twilight of his life, the elderly man entrusted these precious photos to Epoch Times for public release, including a collection of color and black-and-white photos, totaling over 2000 images. Recently, the Chinese authorities have been threatening and harassing individuals they believe are associated with these photos, including Chinese citizens and American citizens.
For 37 years, the CCP has continued to cover up and suppress the truth of the incident, smearing the peaceful demonstrations of the students as “counter-revolutionary riots,” and denying for years the fact that the military shot at civilians. However, history will not disappear because of censorship.
To fulfill the dying wish of this elderly man, Epoch Times is releasing this collection of “June 4th” photos that have been dormant for 37 years in batches for the first time, guiding readers back to that painful historical scene, reminding the world not to forget the atrocities of the CCP’s bloody slaughter of its own people. The CCP continues to intensify its persecution and intimidation of innocent people today, including threatening Epoch Times staff not to publish these photos.