u/maenlsm - originally from r/GenZhou
What have you been told in the West about it? Peacefully protesting students got run over by tanks and mowed down by machine guns in the Tiananmen Square, right?
China calls what happen on June 3-4, 1989 in Beijing the June 4th Incident, and has made documentaries about it. I am going to walk you through one episode of these Chinese documentaries (https://vimeo.com/464780095).
00:00 - 07:56 on the video, the Chinese government called in troops after the protesters occupied the Tiananmen Square for weeks, but protesters dared to block the troops from May 20 to June 3.
07:57 - 12:23, rioters seized guns from the military on June 3. Have you in the West been told that it’s your freedom to seize guns from the military? Rioters also stormed governmental buildings. What have you in the West been told about storming governmental buildings?
12:23 - 13:30, the troops were ordered to quell the riot. The authorities issued warnings on TV from 6:30PM on June 3, urging people in Beijing to stay home to ensure their safety.
13:30 - 17:49, rioters attacked advancing troops in the streets, burning buses, military trucks and APCs.
17:50 - 18:46, the troop opened fire on some rioters in the streets. The narrator said 200-299 civilians died, including 36 college students.
18:47 - 19:13, the famous “tank-man” walked away unscathed after blocking a column of tanks.
19:14 - 22:10, rioters burned military trucks and APCs and they drove around a seized APC, firing its machine gun. Rioters also attacked soldiers and looted weapons.
22:10 - 23:36, (parental guidance needed for the graphical content). Corpses of soldiers killed or burned to death. Injured soldiers.
23:36 - 24:30， rioters burned public properties in other cities in China.
24:30 - 26:12, over 1000 military trucks, APCs and tanks were burned or smashed by the rioters in Beijing.
26:12 - 28:17, soldiers cleaned the mess in Beijing after quelling the riot.
The deaths in the June 4th Incident happened in the streets outside the Tiananmen Square. The next episode of this documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kdIA89flV4) talks about what really happened inside the Tiananmen Square. It basically says that the students peacefully left the Tiananmen Square in the early morning of June 4 and no one died inside the Square. This narrative of the Chinese government can be supported by video recorded by a crew from the Spanish TVE. The ATV in Hong Kong broadcast the video recorded by the Spanish crew in 1994. Given the fact that the video was recorded by a Spanish TV crew, the fact that ATV has been a liberal news outlet in Hong Kong and the fact that Hong Kong in 1994 was still a British colony, you can’t just say it’s a CCP propaganda. Since this video recorded by the Spanish crew contradicts to the Western MSM lies on what happened in the Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, it has been buried underneath heaps of Western MSM lies and is rarely known in the West. See the video (recorded by TVE, broadcast by ATV) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtopY3pcZs. You can turn on its English subtitle.
u/maenlsm - originally from r/GenZhouWhat have you been told in the West about it? Peacefully protesting students got run over by tanks and mowed down by machine guns in the Tiananmen Square, right?
China calls what happen on June 3-4, 1989 in Beijing the June 4th Incident, and has made documentaries about it. I am going to walk you through one episode of these Chinese documentaries (https://vimeo.com/464780095).
00:00 - 07:56 on the video, the Chinese government called in troops after the protesters occupied the Tiananmen Square for weeks, but protesters dared to block the troops from May 20 to June 3.
07:57 - 12:23, rioters seized guns from the military on June 3. Have you in the West been told that it’s your freedom to seize guns from the military? Rioters also stormed governmental buildings. What have you in the West been told about storming governmental buildings?
12:23 - 13:30, the troops were ordered to quell the riot. The authorities issued warnings on TV from 6:30PM on June 3, urging people in Beijing to stay home to ensure their safety.
13:30 - 17:49, rioters attacked advancing troops in the streets, burning buses, military trucks and APCs.
17:50 - 18:46, the troop opened fire on some rioters in the streets. The narrator said 200-299 civilians died, including 36 college students.
18:47 - 19:13, the famous “tank-man” walked away unscathed after blocking a column of tanks.
19:14 - 22:10, rioters burned military trucks and APCs and they drove around a seized APC, firing its machine gun. Rioters also attacked soldiers and looted weapons.
22:10 - 23:36, (parental guidance needed for the graphical content). Corpses of soldiers killed or burned to death. Injured soldiers.
23:36 - 24:30， rioters burned public properties in other cities in China.
24:30 - 26:12, over 1000 military trucks, APCs and tanks were burned or smashed by the rioters in Beijing.
26:12 - 28:17, soldiers cleaned the mess in Beijing after quelling the riot.
The deaths in the June 4th Incident happened in the streets outside the Tiananmen Square. The next episode of this documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kdIA89flV4) talks about what really happened inside the Tiananmen Square. It basically says that the students peacefully left the Tiananmen Square in the early morning of June 4 and no one died inside the Square. This narrative of the Chinese government can be supported by video recorded by a crew from the Spanish TVE. The ATV in Hong Kong broadcast the video recorded by the Spanish crew in 1994. Given the fact that the video was recorded by a Spanish TV crew, the fact that ATV has been a liberal news outlet in Hong Kong and the fact that Hong Kong in 1994 was still a British colony, you can’t just say it’s a CCP propaganda. Since this video recorded by the Spanish crew contradicts to the Western MSM lies on what happened in the Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, it has been buried underneath heaps of Western MSM lies and is rarely known in the West. See the video (recorded by TVE, broadcast by ATV) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtopY3pcZs. You can turn on its English subtitle.