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  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle16-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen squinting down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle14-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Looking down a firing range towards numbered targets, seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle10-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • From 1,100m away, a shooting target at a firing range belonging to the Land Warfare Centre, has been punctured by bullet holes from a new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England.  Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1km. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The army say it's their best ever sniper rifle.
    sniper_rifle09-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle02-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Kneeling in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle22-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle11-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying on his stomach, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle08-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth with a photographer shooting pictures, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF.
    sniper_rifle03-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle17-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle13-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle19-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle18-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle15-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle07-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle06-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle05-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle04-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle24-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle23-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle21-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle20-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle15-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
    sniper_rifle01-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Four members of the Royal Gurkha Rifles are on tactical manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough airfield, England. These Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves. The nearest to the camera points his weapon past the viewer with a yellow blank cover attached. .
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  • An instructor with the Royal Gurkha Rifles points a recruit towards an objective while on tactical training manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough, on 5th August 1996, in Farnborough, England. Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves.
    soldier_training-05-08-1996.jpg
  • Seventeen officer cadets march in line wearing full dress uniform with their rifles on shoulders past guests and VIPs at their passing out parade in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The recently-graduated soldiers march in a near-perfect line looking over their right shoulders towards their commanding officers and VIP guests which sometimes includes Her Majesty the Queen. We see every face clearly and notice their different heights and sizes.  Sharp focus is centred on the smallest man in the parade. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Sultan Qaboos of Oman and, more recently, Prince Harry and Prince William. All British Army officers, and many from elsewhere in the world, are trained at Sandhurst. RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947, from a merger of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Female officer cadets march in line with their weapons on shoulders past guests and VIPs at their passing out parade in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. An honoured cadet strides in front holding a ceremonial sword vertically in her white glove while one cadet in the main line-up is of an ethnic minority. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Sultan Qaboos of Oman and, more recently, Prince Harry and Prince William. All British Army officers, and many from elsewhere in the world, are trained at Sandhurst. RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947, from a merger of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
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  • Elite ceremonial soldiers called Evzones or Proedriki Froura (Presidential Guard), parade on Acropolis Hill, Athens. This special contingent of the light infantry unit are on duty at the Acropolis during the national holiday of 'No Day,' celebrating the day when Mussolini was denied a marching route through Greece in 1941. The Acropolis was once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and philosophical thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its "universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
    greek_olympiad012-23-10_2003.jpg
  • A detail of the arms of a Royal Marines Commando guarding the top deck of HMS Illustrious during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier in Greenwich. The weapon is an SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) a British family of 5.56mm small arms. It is a selective fire, gas-operated assault rifle. The Royal Marine Corps (RM) is the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and forms part of the Naval Service (along with the Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and associated organisations). The Royal Marines were formed in 1755 as marine infantry for the Royal Navy. However, it can trace its origins back to the formation of "the Duke of York and Albanys maritime regiment of foot" at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company on 28 October 1664
    navy_open_day43-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A ceremonial soldier stands guard outside the Palacio de Sao Bento, the Portuguese parliament building while in session, Estrela district, Lisbon. Walking beneath a giant stone statue, the guard has a rifle with fixed bayonet shouldered. São Bento Palace (Palace of Saint Benedict) is the home of the Assembly of the Republic, the Portuguese parliament. Its main façade has been altered numerous times since its 16th-century original.
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  • Young men of today and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial12-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Young smoking man of today and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial11-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Tribute to a lost generation and the clock at Cornhill. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial10-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Tribute to the London Regiment's battalions: In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial08-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Tribute to a lost generation and pillars of the Lord Mayor's Mansion House. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial07-05-08-2014.jpg
  • A Chinese exile is interviewed by a radio journalist opposite his embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Using old technology consisting of a tape recorder and analogue microphone, the reporter records the words of an activist, his words being broadcast, potentially across the world. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london02-05-06-1989.jpg
  • Adrian Weller, the head of Sotheby's Sporting Gun department holds up a double-barelled shotgun alongside a display of beautiful antique firearms and their leather cases. Looking through one barrel with one open eye, he inspects its polished insides used for country sports and rural pursuits. Tagged and chained weapons occupy individual racks in the background. Sotheby's is a multinational corporation, originally English but now owned and headquartered in the United States, that is one of the world's largest auctioneers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. Southeby's auction house have modern and Vintage Sporting Guns, Rifles and shooting accessories dating from 1860 ranging from the earliest breech-loading hammer guns dating from the 1860s to the finest hammerless game guns of the Edwardian era, through to the present day.
    southebys_guns-09-09-1989.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Rifles regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster10-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A portrait of a Lance Corporal in the Rifles regiment of the British army next to the Olympic rings logo before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    canoe_slalom04-29-07-2012.jpg
  • In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of a war memorial soldier's head and shoulders, a hero in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial01-08-09-2014.jpg
  • Tribute to the London Regiment's battalions: In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial09-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Modern man and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial02-05-08-2014.jpg
  • Members of Chinese exile community keep vigil and await more news outside their embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Catching up on the latest from home, the young Chinese activists read newspapers reporting of the massacre by the Chinese regime on protesting students in Beijing. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london01-05-06-1989.jpg
  • Members of Chinese exile community keep vigil and await more news outside their embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. A mock coffin draped in the Chinese flag sit on the London pavement, a presence to officials in the embassy opposite. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london03-05-06-1989.jpg
  • Members of Chinese exile community keep vigil and await more news outside their embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. A mock coffin draped in the Chinese flag sit on the London pavement, a presence to officials in the embassy opposite. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london04-05-06-1989.jpg
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