MR. ZIYANG: One of the few senior Chinese Communist Party officials to side with the students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Zhao Ziyang, died today.
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MR. ZIYANG: One of the few senior Chinese Communist Party officials to side with the students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Zhao Ziyang, died today.
In the late 1980s, when Zhao rose to become China's premier and later party chief, he stood out by pushing political reforms, but he clashed with conservative leaders as students gathered to agitate for freedom and democracy.
He was last seen in public in May 1989, when he visited hunger strikers at the Square.
"We have come too late," he tearfully told the students.
You were a communist but your heart was in the right place that day Mr. Ziyang. Rest in peace.
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