On June 4th, 1989, the People's Liberation Army massacred thousands of student protestors in the middle of Beijing at the direct orders of the Chinese government. For weeks, since the death of the reformist General Secretary of the CCP Hu Yaobang, students across China had broken out into protests and civil disobedience—including Dr. Gyal Lo, who was a 22-year old second-year at North West University for Nationalities in Lanzhou. He describes a hopeful time where Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, and

June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989