Victims of Tiananmen Massacre

(Beijing, June 4th, 1989)

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The newspaper clips upon which these pictures were printed are turning brittle,
yet the memories have not faded a bit...

Warning: this page contains explicit pictures depicting victims of a violent crime. Viewer discretion is advised.


Pictures 1, 9, 10, show multiple victims lying on the floors of hospitals. Pictures 2,3 show decaying victims in body bags. Pictures 4,11,13 show victims lying on bicycles on Beijing streets. Pictures 5,12,14 show victims lying on a table. Picture 6 shows a Tsinghua University graduate student. Picture 7 shows a victim with a crushed head. Pictures 8, 15 show victims crushed by tank treads. Picture 16 shows a victim body lying by the street. Picture 17 shows a dead soldier. Pictures 18, 19, 21, 23, 24 show multiple victims lying on the floor. Pictures 20, 22 show relatives looking for loved ones among victims.

Pictures 6 and 12 through 24 are new additions.

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Credits: Pictures 1,2,3 were clipped from Village Voice, June 12, 1989. Picture 4 was from Amnesty Action, May/June 1989. Pictures 5 and 8 were from "A Hundred Days that Shook Heaven and Earth", published by Asia Weekly, Hong Kong, 1989. Picture 6 were from SDC's archive below. Picture 7 was from Time magazine, June 12, 1989. Pictures 9,10 were from Newsweek, June 19, 1989. Picture 11 was from Time magazine, June 19, 1989. Picture 12 was from Las Angeles Times Magazine, July 16, 1989. Pictures 13 and 14 were from Beijing Massacre Records, published by Chinese Democracy Support Committee, 1989. Pictures 15, 16, 17 were from Daily Reports On The Movement For Democracy In China, Edited by M.-R. Wu et al. Pictures 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 were from Bloodbath In The Chinese Capital, by Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong, 1989. Pictures 6, 23, 24 were from Heroic Pages In History, published by Cheng Ming Magazine, HK, 1989. Please help search your local library and other sources for photos not already included here. If you have a picture you'd like to be included in this page, please contact me.


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Note: if you have trouble downloading the pictures, you may try the e-mail server by sending me an e-mail message with "get 64.zip" in the Subject field. All pictures added before October 97 will be mailed to you as a UUencoded ZIP file. Note that about 14 pictures added since then are not included in the ZIP file.