Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square!
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 10 months agoFor me wikipedia says that at least a few hundred died, can you show me where wikipedia said no one died?
The point is that according to basically all reputable sources, they didnt die on Tianaman Square. They were ordered to leave the Square and did so. Then they were killed at other points in the city.
But of course, since the protests were on the Square and then the killings happened, most people simply condense it down to the inaccurate version of “killed at the square”.
“The massacre in the vicinity of, but not directly on Tiananmen Square” doesn’t have the same ring to it. The concrete location might also not matter that much in the grand scheme of things
Well, it does matter as far as lots of people who only have passing knowledge about it will believe that it was at Tiananmen Square, that the guy in the famous photo was run over by tanks etc.
And that makes it easy for the CCP to go “you are all falling for propaganda, that did not happen, look how good we are in not killing these protesters”
We all know those photos are AI
But they would also say that in response to a 100% accurate retelling.
calamityjanitor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Clearing the Square section recounts the timeline of the military entering the square and it being totally empty by 6am. I guess you could count the three soldiers killed by the crowd, but that’s not what most people mean.