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Interestingly, and having done a bit of extra reading, the current Western position is that the killings didn't actually happen in the square itself, but in the surrounding streets as the army was pushing through Beijing to reach Tiananmen Square. Some of the initial reports that came out were evidently erroneous. Again, that's internal communications in the USA acknowledging that. But still very awful and hundreds of people killed according to that version of events.