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Late-night footage shows military vehicles and tanks entering the city, with soldiers firing on unarmed civilians. Eyewitness videos from news organizations like CNN and CBS News documented the "bloody nighttime assault" where estimates of deaths ranged from several hundred to thousands.

The Chinese government, which had initially responded to the protests with a mixture of confusion and complacency, began to take a harder line in late May 1989. On May 20, the government declared martial law in Beijing, which gave the military sweeping powers to suppress the protests. tiananmen square 1989 video