Li Peng, the former Chinese premier derided as the stone-faced “butcher of Beijing” for his role in the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989, died on Monday in the Chinese capital. He was 90.
Mr. Li's death was announced on Tuesday by Xinhua, the state-run news agency. Xinhua's report gave no specific cause of death, saying only that medical treatment had failed.
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