I was relatively young and barely interested in the news back then, but I do recall seeing or hearing mention of people being run over by tanks, and that being the primary cause of the Prime Minister crying on TV at the time. http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2014/s4017920.htm ..near the bottom of the page: Anti-personnel carriers and tanks then ran backwards and forwards over the bodies of the slain https://www.google.com.au/search?as_q=bob+hawke+crying+tv+tianenmen |