There were more than 1,000 foreign journalists in Beijing
on the night of the army's final drive to clear Tiananmen [sic.] Square, and many of them followed the advance of the main Peopled Liberation Army (P.L.A.)assault force through
the western suburbs as it plowed murderously through the
crowds of laobaixing that formed at all points to block its
path. Most of the foreign film footage of the massacre was
shot in this sector of the city, in neighborhoods like Muxidi, Fuxingman and Liubukou, where hundreds of unarmed protesters and innocent bystanders were mowed down by random gunfire from semiautomatic weapons. The troops apparently made no distinction between these people and the small number who hurled stones, rocks and Molotov cocktails or set fire to vehicles that had been used as road-blocks. Since this main theater of the massacre was by and large well covered by the foreign news media, we will focus here on some lesser-known aspects of the action along western Changan and Fuxingmen subsequently dubbed "Blood
Boulevard" by the people of Beijing.
I find this passage strangely familiar with Egypt, Syria, Ukraine or the early becoming of the Romanian revolution with whom I was very familiar. So this is pretty much about the Blood Boulevard than Tienanmen Square. Even the 1,400 soldiers 'shed their weapons and ran away' paragraph has recent echos.
After fifty days of occupation by the pro-democracy
movement, the square had finally been "returned to the
people." That would make Occupy Wall Street blush.
And last passage could serve as TL;DR
They exploit the fact that no one died during the clearing of Tiananmen Square to conceal the truth that some deaths and injuries did occur there earlier. And they use the fact that there was no bloodbath in Tiananmen Square to cover up the truth about the bloodbaths in Muxidi, Nanchizi and Liubukou. Why do we give them such an opportunity?"
What's up with the [sic]? That's how you spell Tiananmen. You might as well write "There were [sic] more than 1,000 foreign journalists in Beijing [sic] on the night..."
I find this passage strangely familiar with Egypt, Syria, Ukraine or the early becoming of the Romanian revolution with whom I was very familiar. So this is pretty much about the Blood Boulevard than Tienanmen Square. Even the 1,400 soldiers 'shed their weapons and ran away' paragraph has recent echos.
After fifty days of occupation by the pro-democracy movement, the square had finally been "returned to the people." That would make Occupy Wall Street blush.
And last passage could serve as TL;DR
They exploit the fact that no one died during the clearing of Tiananmen Square to conceal the truth that some deaths and injuries did occur there earlier. And they use the fact that there was no bloodbath in Tiananmen Square to cover up the truth about the bloodbaths in Muxidi, Nanchizi and Liubukou. Why do we give them such an opportunity?"
Interesting read.