When a million people converged on Tiananmen Square on April 4 to 5 in 1976 to mourn Zhōu Ēnlái 周恩来, authorities used violence to disperse the gathering. Two years later, the central government reassessed the events of those days.
Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.
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