Mothers of Tiananmen Dead Turn into Activists

Zhang Xianling had advised her son not to go to Tiananmen Square. But in the 25 years since he was shot and left to die she has taken up his activist mantle. The crackdown that ended on June 4, 1989, left hundreds dead -- by some estimates, more than 1,000 -- and a nation stunned that its leaders had deployed troops, tanks and real bullets against student-led protesters in the vast plaza at the heart of China's capital. Zhang's 19-year-old son Wang Nan ...