new video loaded: Examining Li Peng’s Tiananmen Legacy as the ‘Butcher of Beijing’ transcript Li Peng, the former Chinese premier, died on Monday at 90. Mr. Li’s role in the deadly Tiananmen Square ...

Late premiers Li Peng and Zhou Enlai have come to occupy two very different places in the Chinese consciousness, one hugely controversial, the other a national hero. While Zhou remains a cherished ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS AGE TO 90, INSTEAD OF 91 - FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1997, file photo, released by China's Xinhua News Agency, then Chinese ...

BEIJING—Former Chinese Premier Li Peng, reviled by rights activists and many in the Chinese capital as the “Butcher of Beijing” for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died, state ...

Xinhua has announced the death of former premier Li Peng at the age of 91 (age 90 according to the Western calendar): #Breaking: Former Chinese premier Li Peng passed ...

Former Chinese premier Li Peng — known as the “Butcher of Beijing” for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown — has died at the age of 90, state media said Tuesday. Li died of an unspecified ...

Upon his death on Monday, Li Peng, China’s former premier, was officially extolled as a time-tested statesman in China. But internationally, Li will undoubtedly be remembered as the "Butcher of ...

Li Peng, the former Chinese premier whom human rights groups call the “butcher of Beijing” for his role overseeing the deadly 1989 crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, died July 22 ...

Li Peng, the former Chinese premier derided as the stone-faced “butcher of Beijing” for his role in the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989, died on Monday in the ...