Large groups of students <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tiananmen Square protests of 1989">occupy</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tiananmen Square">Tiananmen Square</a> and begin a hunger strike.