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John Simpson

John Simpson is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor. He has reported on major new events in Beijing, Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Iraq and Libya.

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Tiananmen Square

John Simpson

‘I had seen people die in front of me before. But I had never seen three people die, one after the other, in this way.’

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