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Denying the Tiananmen Square massacre

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The '''Tiananmen Square Massacre''' is a perjorative phrase used by Western media to describe the June 4, 1989 effort by the People's Republic of China to regain control of the main plaza of its capital city.  
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Just as [[neo-fascists]] engage in [[Holocaust denial]], the [[Workers World Party]], a neo-Communist organization, has attempted to deny the occurrence of the 1989 '''Tiananmen Square massacre''', in which Chinese government troops killed thousands of student protesters.[http://www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html] This interpretation of events echoes the Chinese government's claim that no one was killed in the square itself. The [[w:Wikipedia]] has an article on the [[w:Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]], which notes that the Chinese government's claim "appears to be technically true, but misleading in that it does not account for the causalities in the approaches to the square. ... Estimates of the number of civilians killed range up to 2,600 (Chinese Red Cross). Injuries are generally held to have numbered from 7,000 to 10,000."
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Masonry and stone surfaces surrounding the square bear no evidence of gunfire, as can be found in streets elsewhere in the city where troops battled each other, cleared streets with gunfire (as the US did that same year in Panama City), and defended themselves against attacks by violent protesters.
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By the time Chinese army units arrived in the square, most of the student leaders in the pro-democracy protest at the square had left the city and many had fled the country. About 3,000 remaining protesters left the square without incident, along streets left open by the approaching armed forces. A Spanish television crew stationed on a rooftop adjacent the square reported no massacre occured. Undifferentiated combat death estimates from throughout the city were widely reported as evidence of a "massacre" at the square. [http://www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html]
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*Andy McInerne, "[http://www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html China's Tienanmen Square; History Clarifies What Happened in 1989]," ''Worker's World'', June 20, 1996.
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==See also:== [[Mass graves in Panama]]
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Revision as of 13:13, 22 November 2003

Just as neo-fascists engage in Holocaust denial, the Workers World Party, a neo-Communist organization, has attempted to deny the occurrence of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which Chinese government troops killed thousands of student protesters.[1] This interpretation of events echoes the Chinese government's claim that no one was killed in the square itself. The w:Wikipedia has an article on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, which notes that the Chinese government's claim "appears to be technically true, but misleading in that it does not account for the causalities in the approaches to the square. ... Estimates of the number of civilians killed range up to 2,600 (Chinese Red Cross). Injuries are generally held to have numbered from 7,000 to 10,000."

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