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1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Hou Dejian and Zhuo Tuo agreed to try to negotiate with the soldiers

Sunday Jun 4, 1989 at 03:30:00 AM
Tian'anmen Square, Beijing, China

At 3:30 am, at the suggestion of two doctors in the Red Cross camp, Hou Dejian and Zhuo Tuo agreed to try to negotiate with the soldiers. They rode in an ambulance to the northeast corner of the Square and spoke with Ji Xinguo, the political commissar of the 38th Army's 336th Regiment, who relayed the request to command headquarters, which agreed to grant safe passage for the students to the southeast. The commissar told Hou, "it would be a tremendous accomplishment, if you can persuade the students to leave the Square.


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