Li Peng, who oversaw Tiananmen Square massacre as Chinese premier, has died at age 91.
capital as the"Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died, state media reported on Tuesday.Li died on Monday in Beijing, Xinhua reported, more than three decades after his government authorized a bloody suppression of student-led pro-democracy protests in the early hours of June 4, 1989.
The death toll given by officials days after the crackdown was about 300, most of them soldiers, with only 23 students confirmed killed., but rights groups and witnesses say the figure could run into the thousands. The topic is taboo in China. "Ridding themselves from the predicament of imperialist bullying, humiliation and oppression, the calamity-trodden Chinese people have since stood up," Li said in 1995 in a speech for the Oct. 1 anniversary of the 1949 revolution.
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