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I've never seen this angle of Tiananmen Square's tankman before. Figured I would share. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] snugglesthefalse 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So what happened then?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

'on this site, in 1989, nothing happened'

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/ns95id/beijing_june_5th_tank_man_stopping_tanks_from/

If you want to read the other side of the story

Notably the mod posted a cbs link that says the reporter never saw any bodies because the military arrested him and held him captive. But the mod doesn’t quote the part of the article where the reporter says people were definitely killed

But there's no question many people were killed by the army that night around Tiananmen Square, and on the way to it — mostly in the western part of Beijing. Maybe, for some, comfort can be taken in the fact that the government denies that, too.