By Nga Pham, BBC News
Nguyen Duc Long, 22, couldn’t believe his eyes when he opened his laptop to read the news in the morning on 4 June.
This photo of a man trying to block tanks has become one of the most famous images of the massacre. AP PHOTO
On some of Vietnam’s most popular online newspapers, there were big stories about the Tiananmen Square crackdown that took place in China 25 years ago.
The stories provided some details about what the papers called Chinese government’s “repression of demonstrators, mostly students” and came with pictures depicting how the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops and tanks moved in and shot at the protesters.
“I could see [in the photographs] pro-liberty placards, bloody bodies lying around, people handcuffed and taken away,” says Long.
“And there was that photo of the tank man,” he added, referring to the famous picture of a lone man standing in front of a column of PLA tanks on Chang’an Avenue near Tiananmen Square on 5 June 1989.
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