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REVEALED: 10,000 killed in China's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown
A man stands in front of a convoy of tanks in the Avenue of Eternal Peace in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989.

REVEALED: 10,000 killed in China's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown

At least 10,000 people were killed in the Chinese army's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, according to a newly released British secret diplomatic cable that gives gruesome details of the bloodshed in Beijing.


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