Zhao Ziyang, then the Communist Party chief, addresses student hunger strikers with a loud-hailer in Tiananmen Square at dawn on May 19, 1989, inside a bus where they were sheltering. He tearfully told them: "We have come too late." Photo: AFP Zhao Ziyang, then the Communist Party chief, addresses student hunger strikers with a loud-hailer in Tiananmen Square at dawn on May 19, 1989, inside a bus where they were sheltering. He tearfully told them: "We have come too late." Photo: AFP
Zhao Ziyang, then the Communist Party chief, addresses student hunger strikers with a loud-hailer in Tiananmen Square at dawn on May 19, 1989, inside a bus where they were sheltering. He tearfully told them: "We have come too late." Photo: AFP
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Updated: 8:39am, 28 May, 2014

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Zhao Ziyang, then the Communist Party chief, addresses student hunger strikers with a loud-hailer in Tiananmen Square at dawn on May 19, 1989, inside a bus where they were sheltering. He tearfully told them: "We have come too late." Photo: AFP Zhao Ziyang, then the Communist Party chief, addresses student hunger strikers with a loud-hailer in Tiananmen Square at dawn on May 19, 1989, inside a bus where they were sheltering. He tearfully told them: "We have come too late." Photo: AFP
Zhao Ziyang, then the Communist Party chief, addresses student hunger strikers with a loud-hailer in Tiananmen Square at dawn on May 19, 1989, inside a bus where they were sheltering. He tearfully told them: "We have come too late." Photo: AFP
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