Known in China as 'the June 4th Incident' but largely forgotten.
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30 years ago today, Tiananmen Square
3 Chinese Warships arrived in Sydney today,..and the Govt. kept it secret.
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This new film (13 mins) by Arthur Kent recounts the June 4, 1989 assault by the People’s Liberation Army on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Consisting entirely of footage recorded by Kent during the massacre, restored in 4K UHD video, the film follows student protesters as they resist the army’s advance.
Featured are the voices and words of the students, and the chilling megaphone decrees of the Communist Party’s martial law authority: leave the square now or suffer the consequences.
It's age verified so I can't embed it.
Consisting entirely of footage recorded by Kent during the massacre, restored in 4K UHD video, the film follows student protesters as they resist the army’s advance.
Featured are the voices and words of the students, and the chilling megaphone decrees of the Communist Party’s martial law authority: leave the square now or suffer the consequences.
It's age verified so I can't embed it.
Here is another interesting account of events, from a PLA journalist who took her camera to T. Square, dressed in civvies and feeling betrayed by the army she belonged to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/worl ... sacre.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/worl ... sacre.html
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I have friends who were there as journalists. It's unfortunate what went down but they had to keep a hold on things. Otherwise the whole of mainland China would have gone to shit Kampong Som style 30 years ago. The cat is out of the bag now.
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One guy that didn't need rhino-horn. That took huge balls. He was disappeared, nobody knows what happened to him or even his name. Respect.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Exactly that, a bit like Saddam using an iron fist to keep a lid on things.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:15 am... they had to keep a hold on things. Otherwise the whole of mainland China would have gone to shit Kampong Som style 30 years ago...
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