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The story of Liu Hongtao

Updated on May 31, 2014

Male, 18, undergraduate student in the optical engineering department of the Beijing Institute of Technology. Shot in both legs in the early morning of June 4, 1989; died at a Beijing hospital where doctors were ordered not to treat him. From Wuhan City, Hubei Province.

“He wrote me and said: ‘If everyone waited for others to make a revolution and just enjoyed its fruit, what could be achieved?’