Hopeful citizen leader of Tiananmen Square the ill-fated 1989 democracy protests in Beijing speaks out with memories of missed chance for political reform

Tiananmen protest leader haunted by ghosts, 25 years on

AFP – A quarter of a century after Communist authorities crushed the Tiananmen Square demonstrators and their hopes of reform, protest leader Wu’er Kaixi still lies awake at night, haunted by the dead and their unrealised dreams. Students rallying for democracy. The Leader of Tiananmen Square?