COLDListenTiananmen Square, Beijing · 2001
On 23 January 2001, five people set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square; Chinese authorities said they were Falun Gong practitioners, but Falun Gong representatives and some journalists disputed this account, and the incident remains the subject of unresolved dispute.
COLDListenChina · 2010
Between 2010 and 2012, Chinese intelligence authorities dismantled CIA espionage networks in China, resulting in the killing of numerous informants and the imprisonment of many others, in one of the CIA's worst intelligence breaches in decades.
SOLVEDListenTiananmen Square, Beijing · 2013
On 28 October 2013, a vehicle drove into pedestrians and burst into flames near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, killing five people and injuring 38. Chinese authorities called it a terrorist attack; the Turkistan Islamic Party later claimed responsibility.
SOLVEDListenDrum Tower, Beijing, China · 2008
On 9 August 2008, during the Beijing Olympics, Tang Yongming, identified by investigators as the attacker, stabbed an American couple and their Chinese tour guide at the historic Drum Tower, killing Todd Bachman and severely wounding his wife Barbara Bachman and the guide, before jumping to his death from the tower.
The files run from 2001 to 2021. The 2000s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is 2001 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident, from 2001.
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2001 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident, from 2001. Open the file
60 Minutes Australia (1 case).
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