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• robinn2@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • Confidential cable from U.S. gov. embassy in Beijing showing US knew there was no firing in the square

  • Hou Dejian, one of the leaders of the Tiananmen protests, saying he was in the square all night and saw no one killed](youtu.be/VSR9zgY1QgU)

  • Clearance of the Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989

  • CBS News correspondent: There Was No “Tiananmen Square Massacre”**

  ** “Constitutively and pathologically unable to simply own up to a past journalistic crime, the propaganda apparatus merely substitutes a new lie for the old one. The official death toll according to the Chinese government is, in fact, a matter of public record: Beijing Municipality has checked and double-checked all the figures from the Martial Law Command, the Public Security Ministry, the Chinese Red Cross, all institutions of higher education, and all major hospitals. These show that 241 people died. They included 23 officers and soldiers from the martial law troops and 218 civilians. The 23 military deaths included 10 from the PLA and 13 from the People’s Armed Police. The 218 civilians (Beijing residents, people from elsewhere, students, and rioters) included 36 students from Beijing universities and 15 people from outside Beijing.” [link]

  This was not a “massacre” but a riot in which police and PLA soldiers were killed as well as civilians/rioters, as proven by the peaceful evacuation of the square and degeneration of the situation thereof.

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• Staines@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Please, link some of these sources.

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