CBS News, 10 years later

    • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 months ago

      I'm going to just hope you are making an ignorant joke and don't know about the out of uniform, unarmed, PLA officer the protestors tied to a bus and burnt alive. Then mocked his corpse in photographs.

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      I hope you can educate yourself on the incident and realize how distasteful your comment is.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I thought the body was strung up after he was dead from being burned by a petrol bomb.

        • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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          10 months ago

          And that would make the situation less offensive how exactly? Unarmed officers were still burnt alive by violent protestors backed by western influencers. The initial troop transports were mostly unarmed and the soldiers were not in combat gear or uniform. What few weapons they had were taken and turned against them. Unarmed soldiers were lynched and a few set on fire while still alive. The first round of actual fighting around June 2nd was instigated by the protestors and 15 officers killed vs 4 from the protestors side. Protestors had commandeered an APC and turned the heavy machine gun on the officers.

          "Again, weapons were handed out to the bandits manning the hastily constructed barricades blocking the streets. Soldiers who were captured within the troop transports were lynched, with some set ablaze whilst still alive. The below three images show the bodies of Lieutenant Liu Guogeng (刘国庚), Private Cui Guozheng (崔国政), and First Lieutenant Wang Jinwei (王锦伟).

          In one instance, Rioters managed to commandeer a People’s Liberation Army Type-63 Armoured personnel carrier (APC) and were filmed ‘joyriding’ it around the streets adjacent to Tian’anmen Square. The video footage also shows rioters driving the stolen vehicle to a military ‘checkpoint’ disembarking its hull, and then firing the vehicle’s main heavy 12.7mm machine gun at the soldiers."

          https://web.archive.org/web/20230606001210/https://mango-press.com/the-tiananmen-square-massacre-the-wests-most-persuasive-most-pervasive-lie/