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The myth of the protestors at Tiananmen Square being “peaceful” is just that, a myth. And might I add one that could not be further from the truth. To prove just my point, here is a short clip of the aftermath of said protestors lighting the scene on fire: https://imgflip.com/gif/7oeosz. To further showcase just how violent these “peaceful protestors actually were, here are three clips showing the same low-quality footage of them stoning PLA truck drivers to death, as imgflip only allows for videos that are 20 seconds long: https://imgflip.com/gif/7oepuv; https://imgflip.com/gif/7oeq44; https://imgflip.com/gif/7oeq8z. And just to really hammer in the point that the Western narrative of “peaceful” protestors may not be all too factual, here’s one of many pictures of them killing soldiers in cold blood (CW: Actual gore): https://imgflip.com/i/7oeqjt. All of this is assuming the so-called “massacre” is even real. 1. Jay Mathews, the first Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post in 1979 and who returned in 1989 to help cover the Tiananmen demonstrations, wrote: “Over the last decade, many American reporters and editors have accepted a mythical version of that warm, bloody night. They repeated it often before and during Clinton’s trip. On the day the president arrived in Beijing, a Baltimore Sun headline (June 27, page 1A) referred to “Tiananmen, where Chinese students died.” A USA Today article (June 26, page 7A) called Tiananmen the place “where pro-democracy demonstrators were gunned down.” The Wall Street Journal (June 26, page A10) described “the Tiananmen Square massacre” where armed troops ordered to clear demonstrators from the square killed “hundreds or more.” The New York Post (June 25, page 22) said the square was “the site of the student slaughter.” The problem is this: as far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square.” Source: https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php. 2. Secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing have shown there was no bloodshed inside the square: “Cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and released exclusively by The Daily Telegraph, partly confirm the Chinese government's account of the early hours of June 4, 1989, which has always insisted that soldiers did not massacre demonstrators inside Tiananmen Square.” Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html (though admittedly this isn’t much use because of the paywall this article is locked behind). 3. Gregory Clark, a former Australian diplomat, and Chinese-speaking correspondent of the International Business Times, wrote: “The original story of Chinese troops on the night of 3 and 4 June, 1989 machine-gunning hundreds of innocent student protesters in Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square has since been thoroughly discredited by the many witnesses there at the time — among them a Spanish TVE television crew, a Reuters correspondent and protesters themselves, who say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night. Yet none of this has stopped the massacre from being revived constantly, and believed. All that has happened is that the location has been changed – from the Square itself to the streets leading to the Square.” Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053. 4. Thomas Hon Wing Polin, writing for CounterPunch, wrote: “The most reliable estimate, from many sources, was that the tragedy took 200-300 lives. Few were students, many were rebellious workers, plus thugs with lethal weapons and hapless bystanders. Some calculations have up to half the dead being PLA soldiers trapped in their armored personnel carriers, buses and tanks as the vehicles were torched. Others were killed and brutally mutilated by protesters with various implements. No one died in Tiananmen Square; most deaths occurred on nearby Chang’an Avenue, many up to a kilometer or more away from the square. More than once, government negotiators almost reached a truce with students in the square, only to be sabotaged by radical youth leaders seemingly bent on bloodshed. And the demands of the protesters focused on corruption, not democracy. All these facts were known to the US and other governments shortly after the crackdown. Few if any were reported by Western mainstream media, even today.” Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/06/tiananmen-the-empires-big-lie/. And if all of that wasn’t enough for you, here are links to the BBC, CBS, and the New York Times flat out admitting that the so-called “massacre” wasn’t real: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8057762.stm; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/; https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/27/world/clinton-in-china-the-site-clinton-in-beijing-square-may-tread-on-the-ghosts.html. Here is a video clip is Hou Dejian, who is a song writer from Taiwan and an organizer of the protest. He says that he did not see any killings in Tiananmen Square during June 4th: https://youtu.be/eUcBm3qxeQ4. Added to that, here is a video of one of the student leaders, Chai Ling, explaining how she tried (but failed lol) to bait the Chinese government into actually committing a massacre: https://youtu.be/Vu3zmbFGwQA. What makes this all the more shady is that following the false “massacre”, through Operation Yellowbird, many of the students helped escape to the U.S. with the help of the CIA. Suggesting that not only was the massacre fake, but the violent uprising was caused by the CIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellowbird. Almost all of them even gained privileged positions: https://qz.com/1618805/the-1989-tiananmen-student-leaders-on-chinas-most-wanted-list. The fact that U.S. media would even conjure up such a lie in the first place should alarm you, as the last time the U.S. lied about another country (Iraq), there was a war that lasted for over 20 years. So one could only imagine what they’re plotting to do to China. are oranges called orange because they are orange, or is orange called orange because of the orange? the Tiananmen; Square massacre is a sinophobic lie to drum up hate against the Chinese government for reasons we can only imagine. Glory to the CPC
