wildbus8979 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Fun fact, Tank Man at Tiananmen wasn’t run over by a tank, and despite the event being called the “Tiananmen massacre” leaked US embassy cables say no one was shot at the square.

telegraph.co.uk/…/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-T…

In 2009, James Miles, who was the BBC correspondent in Beijing at the time, admitted that he had “conveyed the wrong impression” and that “there was no massacre on Tiananmen Square. Protesters who were still in the square when the army reached it were allowed to leave after negotiations with martial law troops [ …] There was no Tiananmen Square massacre, but there was a Beijing massacre”.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/19216f32-4542-487a-8746-b335538dddb3.jpeg

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/90c676a0-39d6-4074-8ce4-97fb04ea57dd.jpeg

Western media also never seem to mention the dozen or so police officers who were killed and immolated before the repression started, somehow that’s irrelevant or something. Can you imagine how things would have gone if a dozen police officer had been murdered and burnt during the WTC protests in 1999, or BLM?