For decades, film rolls containing more than 2,000 photos documenting the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement had been shut inside a metal box, never known to the world.
These photos, taken by a Chinese state media photographer and having survived the ensuing political purge campaigns after the massacre, eventually made their way to the United States, and were recently entrusted to The Epoch Times.
Now, The Epoch Times is making the photos public for the first time.
Thousands of people are estimated to have died on June 4 at the hands of the Chinese communist regime 37 years ago.
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Communist authorities, framing a peaceful student-led movement as a riot to disrupt social order, hunted down participants nationwide while instituting systematic ideological reeducation to erase from history all but their version of events….