Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents

"Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make 'pie' and remains collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains.“

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Post by bartread » Sat, Dec 23, 2017, 1:26 PM UTC

votepaunchy wrote: post #4

What did they do with all the bodies? "Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make 'pie' and remains collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains.“

Reading that made me feel physically sick, and then the line afterwards about the girls begging for their lives who were bayonetted. Just awful.

I have, and probably always will, find Chinese culture somewhat fascinating but I have no love for their political regime.

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sat, Dec 23, 2017, 1:29 PM UTC

tomlock wrote: post #2

I wonder if Altman bought this up when he was in China.

I'm sure he would decry the political correctness of not mentioning Tiananmen.

Surely.

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Post by thriftwy » Sat, Dec 23, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

I temember several years back some journalists stating they didn't actually have evidence for large scale massacre (as opposed to chaotic skirmishes) and made most of that story up.

Was it so or wasn't? At this point I don't know what to think.

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Post by hsrada » Sat, Dec 23, 2017, 1:39 PM UTC

A day to Remember (10 Min) : https://vimeo.com/44078865

Liu Wei, a Chinese artist goes around the streets of Beijing on June 4th asking people ‘What Day is it today?’ hoping for an answer on the lines of ‘Today’s the 16th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre’ but what he gets instead is a lot of ‘I don’t know’'s from the people whose faces clearly say otherwise.