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On this day 15 years ago the Chinese government showed its muscle and its dislike of dissent when it ordered the People’s Liberation Army to use tanks and guns on students who had been protesting peacefully for weeks in Tianamen Square. Age Journalist Peter Ellingsen was there when the carnage began.

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