May 11, 1989 - Yang SK tells Deng XP: "the students have broad support...their slogans say what a lot of ordinary people would like to say"
2014-05-11 15:52:28May 11, 1989 - Deng Xiaoping tells Yang: "We're left fumbling over what to do. The students are forcing our hand, I"m afraid."
2014-05-11 15:53:39May 11, 1989 - Deng: "This is only a smoke screen. Their real aim is to topple the Communist Party and overthrow the socialist system."
2014-05-11 15:54:58May 11, 1989 - Deng Xiaoping: "When Gorbachev's here, we have to have order at Tiananmen. Our international image depends on it."
2014-05-11 16:04:56May 11, 1989 - Some students call for starting a hunger strike, post sign-up sheets on Beijing campuses pic.twitter.com/8RGaFVUeXw
2014-05-11 16:08:33May 11, 1989 - New York Times: "Snub Lies in Waiting for Gorbachev in Shanghai" by @NickKristof nytimes.com/1989/05/12/wor…
2014-05-11 16:28:21May 12, 1989 - Student leader Chai Ling make speech announcing hunger strike will begin next day in Tiananmen Square pic.twitter.com/RP2NHwAxdl
2014-05-13 04:43:09May 12, 1989 - Chai Ling: "In these bright and beautiful days of May, we are beginning a hunger strike."
2014-05-13 04:43:54May 12, 1989 - Chai Ling: "The govt should be our govt. Who should speak out, if we should not? Who should act, if we should not?"
2014-05-13 04:44:42(1/2) May 12, 1989 - Chai Ling: "Democracy is supposed to be the highest of human aspirations..."
2014-05-13 04:48:43(2/2) "...and freedom, a sacred human right, granted at birth. Today these must be bought with our lives."
2014-05-13 04:49:04May 12, 1989 - Chai Ling: "Farewell, our people! Please permit us to demonstrate to you our loyalty in this desperate fashion."
2014-05-13 04:49:32May 12, 1989: Chai Ling: "Time of the hunger strike: Begins at 2:00 P.M., May 13, 1989. Place of the hunger strike: Tiananmen Square."
2014-05-13 04:50:38May 13, 1989 - Peking University professors take 200 student hunger strikers out to have their last lunch pic.twitter.com/OuQdN0RldO
2014-05-14 20:02:42May 13, 1989 - Hunger strikers gather on campus, wearing headbands that read "Give me liberty or give me death" pic.twitter.com/yK2WpovPFy
2014-05-14 20:05:21May 13, 1989 - Student hunger strikers march from their Beijing campuses to Tiananmen Square pic.twitter.com/iltre6mgJ6
2014-05-14 20:20:29May 13, 1989 - Student hunger strikers arrive in Tiananmen Square pic.twitter.com/OGP91PoqEO
2014-05-14 20:23:33May 13, 1989 - Student hunger strikers gather in Tiananmen Square pic.twitter.com/vXLwL3AOU0
2014-05-14 20:25:59May 13, 1989 - Student leader Wu'er Kaixi and other hunger strikers pledge to refuse food until govt opens dialogue pic.twitter.com/TLd2Ew2Zb4
2014-05-14 20:27:26May 13, 1989 - Protesters sit in lotus position to begin their hunger strike in Tiananmen Square pic.twitter.com/4wJ5porTMO
2014-05-14 20:29:21May 13, 1989 - At 5pm, protesters announce official start of hunger strike in Tiananmen Square pic.twitter.com/uac5egQAdQ
2014-05-14 20:31:16May 13, 1989 - Student delegate: "The ball has been kicked in the govt's court, we are waiting to see how the govt will kick the ball back.”
2014-05-14 20:32:46May 13, 1989 - Govt spokesman Yan Mingfu: "If the students do not leave the square by May 15th, the consequences will be hard to predict."
2014-05-14 20:34:55May 13, 1989 - Student hunger strikers and their supporters occupy Tiananmen Square through the night pic.twitter.com/1Ch4igzLxu
2014-05-14 20:36:48May 13, 1989 - At night, passersby read political statements posted along Beijing's Chang'an Blvd. pic.twitter.com/mP6rG0Cz5Z
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