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Wikileaks Cables Say No Bloodshed Inside Tiananmen Square

Posted by timothy on from the bloodshed-all-confined-to-freedom-square dept.

netchaos writes "Secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing have shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square when China put down student pro-democracy demonstrations 22 years ago." Which is not to say that everything was flowers and wine: "Instead, the cables show that Chinese soldiers opened fire on protesters outside the centre of Beijing, as they fought their way towards the square from the west of the city."

2 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No big secret here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was working for CTV news in Toronto at the time and I saw the raw footage of a protester getting run over by a tank and squashed like a bug. It's not something you forget. The footage was edited down to make it look like the tank had stopped, which it did, hesitating for a few seconds.

    Two weeks later we were visited by the Chinese head of media and they were given a full tour of the facility.

  2. Re:No big secret here by linuxrocks123 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Was this footage made public? If not, why not?

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    vi ~/.emacs # I'm probably going to Hell for this.