Taipei- Exiled Chinese dissidents will launch a series of campaigns to demand China to apologize for the 1989 massacre of protestors on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, a Taiwan-based Chinese dissident said Thursday.

The call comes in the run up to the 20th anniversary of the communist government's bloody crackdown on student protestors on June 4, 1989 - whose full death toll has never been established.

Wuer Kaixi, one of the student leaders in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing, said the activities will kick off next week and climax on June 3 or June 4, with a news conference held in the US capital Washington, D. C.

At the Washington news conference, Wang Dan, a US-based student leader of the pro-democracy movement, will release a "white paper" on the Tiananmen Incident, the first legal report on the Tiananmen Massacre, he claimed.

The while paper will attempt to demonstrate that there as no need for China to use force to suppress the student protest, and will demand China apologize to and compensate the family members of the victims of the Tiananmen massacre.

"Some two dozen exiled dissidents will attend the Washington news conference. I am scheduled to attend the Washington news conference but I have also been invited to go to France to attend commemorative activities there," Wuer Kaixi told German Press Agency dpa.

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing, which lasted for months and appeared on the brink of forcing the Chinese government to introduce reform and embrace democracy, ended in bloodshed on June 4, 1989.

China used tanks and soldiers to drive away the hunger-striking students camping out on the Tiananmen Square, allegedly killing hundreds of them.

The Tiananmen Mothers Campaign, founded by relatives of the Tiananmen Massacre victims, has drafted a list of 155 people who were killed in the Tiananmen Massacre.

The group has also been demanding China apologize for the crackdown and compensate family members of those killed in the crackdown.

But China declared the Tiananmen affair a "counter-revolutionary incident" and insisted no one was killed.

After the suppression of the pro-democracy movement, many Chinese pro-democracy activists and students leaders fled China to avoid being arrested.

Both Wang Dan and Wuer Kaixi went to the United States.

Wuer Kaixi married a Taiwan student while studying at Harvard and has been living in Taiwan for several years. He is now the Taiwan manager of an international financial investment company.(dpa)