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And if something did maybe happen, it's the CIA's fault

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[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You do know that the pictures support what he said right? There's pictures of dead soldiers because they weren't given ammo when marching into the city. Once they started getting killed, they gave them ammo and they just started shooting everybody. Before then the protesters smashed their heads, stripped them, and burned them.

The ones who stayed in the square were mostly the peaceful hunger strikers and not the fighters so the square itself was cleared without much trouble compared to the march into the city.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Armed troops and tanks made their way to the square on the night of June 3 and into the morning hours of June 4. They soon shot those who stood in their way and crushed those who wouldn’t move out of it.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Once again, that's not out of line with what he and I said. There were barricades and fighting in the streets of Beijing and the army killed whoever got in their way to the square, but the people occupying the square were negotiated with and peacefully dispersed. They then once again took all the ammo from the soldiers.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I don't understand why you think it's important to insist that nothing happened precisely inside Tiananmen Square, but you are perfectly happy for a massacre to have occurred in, say, Changan Avenue.

Anyway, to respond to the original challenge rather than argue your questionable morals.

A tank set ablaze by protesters burns in Tiananmen Square on June 3.

A Chinese armored personnel carrier, with crushed bicycles stuck to its side, sits in Tiananmen Square on June 4.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because it's what happened. It's not a point of morals or anything else. The other poster is making a value argument that I don't particularly agree with, but when it comes to the reality of what happened, they're grounded. Go read the Wikipedia article.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The other poster is trying to claim nothing bad happened inside Tiananmen Square itself, and it was the protestors that were the real aggressors.

This is bullshit.

The situation escalated because reserves from outside Beijing were drafted in, who had no friends or relatives protesting.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 employ violence to achieve their aims. I didn't think I needed to spell that out.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The westerners ARE wrong though, like the story I and I'm sure many others, including OP learned is directly contradicted by the evidence.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month 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.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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, nobody would be sleeping. 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 PLA on the streets of Beijing and the soldiers indiscriminately opening fire on entire apartment blocks because someone threw a rock.

Frankly the best evidence of it is Yellowbird itself, which smuggled more than 400 people out of China, many of them the leaders of the protest themselves. If they had kettled in and slaughtered the occupants, that wouldn't have been possible.

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