A handful of protesters killing cops and soldiers does not justify indiscriminate murder, particularly when you consider it the government’s responsibility to make sure protesters never get to the point that they feel the need to lynch and burn cops to achieve their aims. I didn’t think I needed to spell that out.
The thing to keep in mind is there were a massive amount of people occupying the square. The key point is, the army did not massacre those people. They left after negotiations with the army. There was no gunning down the occupiers or crushing them with tanks. One person picked up in CIA/SIS Operation Yellowbird said that the tanks ran over tents with people sleeping inside them in the square, but that’s frankly dumb. The others that were actually there noted that it was a largely peaceful dispersal if you compare it to what happened before with the protesters fighting the police on the streets of Beijing and the soldiers indiscriminately opening fire on entire apartment blocks because someone threw a rock.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The other poster is trying to claim nothing bad happened inside Tiananmen Square itself. This is bullshit, and irrelevant.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
A handful of protesters killing cops and soldiers does not justify indiscriminate murder, particularly when you consider it the government’s responsibility to make sure protesters never get to the point that they feel the need to lynch and burn cops to achieve their aims. I didn’t think I needed to spell that out.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I agree with this statement, but it’s very different from the “defence of the Chinese narrative, westerners are wrong” ship you sailed in on.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
The westerners ARE wrong though, like it’s directly contradicted by the evidence.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The thing to keep in mind is there were a massive amount of people occupying the square. The key point is, the army did not massacre those people. They left after negotiations with the army. There was no gunning down the occupiers or crushing them with tanks. One person picked up in CIA/SIS Operation Yellowbird said that the tanks ran over tents with people sleeping inside them in the square, but that’s frankly dumb. The others that were actually there noted that it was a largely peaceful dispersal if you compare it to what happened before with the protesters fighting the police on the streets of Beijing and the soldiers indiscriminately opening fire on entire apartment blocks because someone threw a rock.