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.
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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThe other poster is trying to claim nothing bad happened inside Tiananmen Square itself. This is bullshit, and irrelevant.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
The westerners ARE wrong though, like it’s directly contradicted by the evidence.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have no idea what story you, OP, or others learned, but if it says no-one was killed in Tiananmen Square and the protesters instigated the violence then it is fiction.
Only 300 deaths is also likely to be fiction. I hope the British hearsay from Chinese sources of 10,000 deaths is exaggeration.