Obituary
Li Peng: ‘The Butcher of Tiananmen’
28 July 2019 - 00:00
Li Peng, who has died at the age of 90, served as China’s premier between 1987 and 1998. He became known as “the Butcher of Beijing”, or “the Butcher of Tiananmen”, for his role in the infamous crackdown on dissidents in 1989 in which hundreds of people, probably thousands, were killed by state forces...
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