Like this....
This is getting really boring.
OK here are the facts....again.
The Myth of Tiananmen - Columbia Journalism Review
What is lost in this
The hoax was referring to the massacre at the Square itself where the thousands of students were at.
Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim - Telegraph
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A BBC reporter watching from a high floor of the Beijing Hotel said he saw soldiers shooting at students at the monument in the center of the square.
But as the many journalists who tried to watch the action from that relatively safe vantage point can attest, the middle of the square is not visible from the hotel.
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Quote “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.”
The point is very clear. Western media sold the story of thousands of unarmed and peaceful young students were gunned down and rolled over as they were sleeping ???
This was the story that was told to people like you who want to believe such a thing happened. For a good 20 years !
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At about 1:00 am, the army finally reached Tiananmen Square and waited for orders from the government. The soldiers had been told not to open fire, but they had also been told that they must clear the square by 6:00 a.m.–-no exceptions. They made a final offer of amnesty if the few thousand remaining students would leave. About 4:00 am, student leaders put the matter to a vote: Leave the square, or stay and face the consequences.
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The remaining students, numbering a few hundred, left the square under the military's watch before dawn.
Majority of the death occurred on the roads leading to the square when the PLA had to fight their way through road blocks into the square.
Some sources say that protesters first threw rocks and
Molotov cocktails at police and army vehicles and lit many vehicles on fire in the streets leading to the Tiananmen, some with their occupants still inside them.
There were reports of soldiers being burned alive in their armoured personnel carriers while others were
beaten to death. Therefore, soldiers responded by opening fire on protesters. These protesters were mostly workers and not students. Students were mainly at the square.
Hard to say it was a massacre if PLA had to FIGHT their way through.
Apparently last year, Hou Dejian - a June 4th protest leader, came back to the Mainland from TW to give a surprise performance at the Bird's Nest.
This is also the student leader who admitted that he never personally saw any killing/weapons firing/tanks running over people on the Square that day.
Jo Smith Finley was kicked of of China so she has beef with China. Evidences are mostly anecdotal.
