Two days after the massacre, Chinese troops patrolled the streets of Beijing during a military curfew. At this time the Chinese troops had been firing at random as they roamed the streets.
A Chinese student wounded during the massacre on Tianamen Square is carried away by fellow Chinese who put their lives on the line protesting for democratic reforms in China.
A young man holds his blood-soaked shirt after an encounter with troops. In contrast with the soldiers forced to retreat the night before these were veteran troops in battle gear.
A Chinese soldier that had marched towards Tianamen Square with approximately thirty thousand soldiers to try and take over the square was turned back by Chinese civilians 24 hours before the army massacred hundresd of Chinese students.
A Chinese woman pleads with a soldier sitting in a convoy of soldiers that were sent to Beijing on the eve of the Tianamen Square massacre. The soldiers were sent to put down the students pro-democracy movement.
The Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, in Soviet Central Asia, has shrunk 90 kilometers in the last ten years due to inefficient irrigation. This has devasted the region environmentally and left ships dried up in the desert.