On June 4, 1989, government tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square, crushing student-led pro-democracy protests in a brutal crackdown that shocked the world.

The crackdown ended more than one month of protests in Beijing, during which students occupied Tiananmen Square and underwent a hunger strike while protestors took to the streets, carrying posters and singing songs of democracy.

Today, information about the “June 4 Incident” and the democracy movement that led up to the crackdown is still censored in China. But those who remember are working to teach future generations about Tiananmen, despite a government ban on the topic.

“It's hard to get kids like my daughter to care about things like this. But I want them to care,” one RFA listener in China wrote in an essay, hoping that China’s next generation will learn about the events of June 4.