Overview: There was no massacre in Tiananmen. The square was cleared of protestors. What began was a low level skirmish by CIA funded liberal counter-revolutionaries who's chant was "First Soviet Union now us!" who began burning PLA soldiers alive (a lot of whom were unarmed and with little training). The CIA paid for protestor-rats were then funnelled to the West in Operation Yellowbird. A few hundred people died with half of those being PLA soldiers. Compare this to the Gwanju 1980 uprising in South Korea where the US-puppet state executed 2000 people (who most people have never even heard of) and we immediately see the political nature of Tiananmen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

The origins of the myth that PLA soldiers walked into the square and gunned down protestors are British lies that were planted by annonymous sources in corrupt media

https://www.globalresearch.ca/tiananmen-square-massacre-is-a-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies/5386080

A Spanish film crew stayed the entire night until the morning. They actually filmed the clearing of Tiananmen Square on the morning of June 4 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtopY3pcZs&feature=emb_logo

CBS news correspondant saying there was no massacre in the square

Dawn was just breaking. There were hundreds of troops in the square, many sitting cross-legged on the pavement in long curving ranks, some cleaning up debris. There were some tanks and armored personnel carriers. But we saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a "massacre" had recently occurred in that place.

Later, being debriefed on-air by Dan Rather, I recall making an effort to avoid using the word "massacre." I referred to an "assault" and an "attack."

I reported what I saw; I said I hadn't seen any bodies. Admittedly, I've never made a point of trying to contradict a colleague on the air; I've simply stuck to my own story, because I've believed it's true.

Some have found it uncomfortable that all this conforms with what the Chinese government has always claimed, perhaps with a bit of sophistry: that there was no "massacre in Tiananmen Square."

But there's no question many people were killed by the army that night around Tiananmen Square, and on the way to it — mostly in the western part of Beijing. Maybe, for some, comfort can be taken in the fact that the government denies that, too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/#app

Wikileaks cable to US with a correspondant in Beijing confirming there was no massacre in Tiananmen

  1. SUMMARY DURING A RECENT MEETING, A LATIN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT AND HIS WIFE PROVIDED POLOFF AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MOVEMENTS ON JUNE 3-4 AND THEIR EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF EVENTS AT TIANANMEN SQUARE. ALTHOUGH THEIR ACCOUNT GENERALLY FOLLOWS THOSE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED, THEIR UNIQUE EXPERIENCES PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INSIGHT AND CORROBORATION OF EVENTS IN THE SQUARE. THEY WERE ABLE TO ENTER AND LEAVE THE SQUARE SEVERAL TIMES AND WERE NOT HARASSED BY TROOPS. REMAINING WITH STUDENTS BY THE MONUMENT TO THE PEOPLE'S HEROES UNTIL THE FINAL WITHDRAWAL, THE DIPLOMAT SAID THERE WERE NO MASS SHOOTINGS OF STUDENTS IN THE SQUARE OR AT THE MONUMENT. END SUMMARY.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html

CIA escape plan, Operation Yellowbird, for CIA funded protestors

https://web.archive.org/web/20200604113735/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/06/02/the-great-escape-from-china/5da31d0d-aca1-4c56-9178-767d14c29f62/?utm_term=.d187cf2f2940

Watch video of Chai Ling, Student leader, saying how she's "hoping for bloodshed and how she feels guilty as the protestors are so young but that's the only way the Chinese people will rise up." Also how "The chinese people aren't worth her struggle" and she "wont be going to the protests because she expects bloodshed". Why didn't she want to risk her life? Because she already had a green card to US and a Princton university position

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/gwazf8/excerpts_of_interviews_with_tiananmen_square/

True, some of the blame also lies with Beijing. Its campaigns to hunt down student protest leaders and to blame everything on anti-regime plots have not created a good impression. But it may have its reasons. Out of frustration as their long protest began to dissipate, some of the student leaders had called for action by the angry crowds still around the Square. And how did some in those crowds have access to petrol bombs – a weapon not used by Chinese rioters and allegedly responsible for over 400 vehicles being destroyed?

The regime had tolerated the protesters by allowing them to occupy its central square for six weeks. Its party general secretary had tried in vain to negotiate with them. And it later regretted how its lack of crowd control equipment meant it had had to rely on untrained soldiers. But then again, none of this would have happened if the regime itself had not been at fault in the past.

The words of well-known Taiwan-born writer Hou Dejian, who had been on the hunger strike on the Square to show solidarity with the students, says it all: “Some people said that 200 died in the Square and others claimed that as many as 2,000 died. There were also stories of tanks running over students who were trying to leave. I have to say that I did not see any of that. I myself was in the Square until 6:30 in the morning.

“I kept thinking — are we going to use lies to attack an enemy who lies?”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/tiananmen-square-massacre-is-a-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies/5386080

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Mango Press did a comprehensive post on this that I thought was very well done, check it out it if you haven't

    https://www.mango-press.com/the-tiananmen-square-massacre-the-wests-most-persuasive-most-pervasive-lie/

    in case they get shut down (already banned from twitter) here it is archvied

    https://archive.ph/BMo2L