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Li Peng, the former Chinese premier, died on Monday at 90. Mr. Li’s role in the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown on student demonstrators in 1989 led his critics to call him the “butcher of ...
Li Peng, a former hard-line Chinese premier best known for announcing martial law during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, has died. He was 91.
Li Peng, the former Chinese premier whom human rights groups call the “butcher of Beijing” for his role overseeing the deadly 1989 crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, died ...
Li Peng, the former Chinese premier, died on Monday at 90. Mr. Li’s role in the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown on student demonstrators in 1989 led his critics to call him the “butcher of ...
BEIJING — Former Chinese Premier Li Peng, reviled by rights activists and many in the Chinese capital as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died ...
Li Peng, the former Chinese Premier remembered for his role in the brutal military suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters, has died aged 91, according to state-run media.
BEIJING—Li Peng, the former Chinese premier and political hard-liner who backed using China’s military to violently quell the Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations in 1989, has died.
Li Peng, a former hard-line Chinese premier best known for announcing martial law during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, has died. He was 90. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) ...
Li Peng, the former Chinese leader who declared martial law before the bloody crackdown on student demonstrators three decades ago in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, has died. He was 90.
But Li knew he had Deng on his side, in favour of military force. On May 17th he left a Politburo meeting at Deng’s house, alongside the “crestfallen” Zhao, exultant that he had got his way.
Li Peng, Chinese premier during Tiananmen crackdown, dies by: KEN MORITSUGU, Associated Press Posted: Jul 23, 2019 / 06:12 AM CDT Updated: Jul 23, 2019 / 11:13 PM CDT ...