File photo of Chairman of the National Congress of the People's Republic of China Li Peng stands next to a Chinese flag in Canberra's Parliament House in Australia September 16, 2002. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo
BEIJING, Former Chinese Premier Li Peng, reviled by rights activists and many in the capital as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died, state media said on Tuesday.
Li, who was 90, died on Monday evening in Beijing due to an unspecified illness, the official Xinhua news agency said.
