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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    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

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    global research dot ca will get you bounced from some filters, here it is from International Business Times, a much more lib-respectable source for the same article:

    https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053

    would gently suggest substituting these references

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    • Archivist [comrade/them]
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      So there was violence between protestors and Soldiers and a lot of people died (200-300)

      However the protestors instigated the violence by lynching unarmed PLA soldiers who had little training and were quite young. The violence was mostly street fighting between CIA paid protestors and unarmed soldiers.

      True, no one denies that large numbers of citizens and students were killed near the Square by soldiers seemingly out of control. But why?

      Let’s go back to those photos of the burning buses. The popular view is that they were torched by angry protesters after the shooting began. In fact they were torched before. The evidence? Reports of charred corpses being strung up beneath overpasses (one photographed by Reuters remains unpublished), and photos of badly burned soldiers seeking shelter in nearby houses. Soldiers in that kind of situation tend to go out with guns blazing – just ask the good citizens of Fallujah, Iraq.

      Fortunately we also have the hourly reports from the US Embassy in the Beijing, available on the Internet, to tell us what actually happened. They note that originally the Beijing authorities had wanted to send in unarmed troops to clear the Square of remaining students as the protests were beginning to wind down. Blocked by the crowds, armed troops were bused in and this time they were blocked by crowds with petrol bombs, with ugly results. Even so, some units tried to restrain the out-of-control solders. And an embassy report of students killing a soldier trying to enter the Square could explain some of the carnage on its periphery.

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

      This fighting took place 5km away from Tiananmen

      Contemporaneous cables from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, published by WikiLeaks, confirm key aspects of the official Chinese story: There were no mass firings at unarmed protesters by the army; most of the troops who entered the square used riot gear (truncheons, wooden clubs), albeit backed by armed soldiers; students still in the square when the troops entered were allowed to leave peacefully; and the fiercest fighting took place at Muxidi, about 5 km west of the square.

      https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/06/commentary/world-commentary/tiananmen-narrative-true/

      Once they had lynched a number of PLA soldiers the soldiers then fought back. So you have what is basically a limited insurgency between the State and liberal free-market fundamentalist counter-revolutionaries.

      It wasn't (and it's beyond proven now) the British lies that seem to be retold - soldiers with machine guns gunning down protestors in the square.

      It was a limited insurgency fought between neoliberal, Western-paid brainwashed traitors and soldiers that mostly were only armed with clubs.

      The Western paid-for traitors then immediately got rat-lined to the USA.