Wikileak cables

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https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php

Columbia Law Review

The Myth of Tiananmen And the price of a passive press

June 4, 2010

A few people may have been killed by random shooting on streets near the square, but all verified eyewitness accounts say that the students who remained in the square when troops arrived were allowed to leave peacefully. Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances.

The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city, where, it should be added, a few soldiers were beaten or burned to death by angry workers.

I have to link it on hexbear as the .ml admins deleted the post for being orientalist af.

But more simply: Here’s the full video of Tank Man.

Note that in the beginning, you can see the square, there are not hundreds of thousands of machine-gunned protesters being crushed into paste by tanks, burned, and sprayed down the drain, as the official US narrative goes.

There’s also this context: https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/563/782/759/076/800/original/d60c38f786621419.mp4

We know the western narrative is entirely fictional, we can’t verify that the chinese narrative is 100% accurate, but none of the evidence disproves it, so it’s probably closer to the Chinese narrative that 250-300 people died in battles in the streets surrounding the square.