by marojejian
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- archive:
https://archive.is/k388E#selection-1339.61-1339.70
video of the trial (6 hours):
https://youtu.be/1RBV9i4jaPo?si=oesH721IFLnmzEcW
by blargthorwars
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- May his name be remembered and on our lips for ever, and may his memory be a blessing for his family.
- The video linked in the top post is via HRIC's (Human Rights in China) youtube chan. I used to see them at 2600's HOPE conferences in NYC in the early 2000s. I figure some of you may have seen them there as well. Neat to see that they're still going strong.
by DustinEchoes
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- Gutsy move by whoever got it out of the archive and into Wu’s hands.
by JumpCrisscross
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- Out of curiosity, what were China’s current leadership up to during the Tiananmen Square massacre?
- I believe some units also refused to do so.
by RandyOrion
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- Salute to anyone like Xu Qinxian who refused to give up their own moral principals when facing inhumane commands from psychopath leaders like Deng Xiaoping, Mao Zedong, and so on. Also, for anyone who obeyed inhumane commands like mindless shells, you'll eat what you grow.
Note: Historical records reveal that the people behind the coordination of the Tiananmen Massacre (which this post is talking about) is Deng Xiaoping.
by JohnnyLarue
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- Western media always gets Tiananmen wrong. Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement. The tanks were leaving on the second day. It's just so very exhausting.
- The article is paywall, but has anyone attempted to transcribe the whole thing?
- To be perfectly clear, other generals had no such qualms. Many hundreds to thousands of student protesters were massacred by the Chinese Communist Party's People's Liberation Army tanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
Edit: To address latincommie's claims based on one of 250k "cables" (meant to be quick reports without much vetting) from that Assange/Manning leak: I think that a plausible explanation here is deception from PRC counter-intelligence. Chile was in a state of flux at the time, to say the least.
- These are the sorts of people that deserve national holidays. Many of them come from problematic background, or had problematic politics, but when it mattered they showed up.
by justsomejew
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by latincommie
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- The general did not 'refuse' to crush the protests because the government did not want to crush them - the protesters were Maoists, who thought that the government had become too capitalist and wanted the army to do a coup to return to Maoism. They were preventing the tanks from getting out of the square - not entering - for that reason, and that's what the Tankman was doing in the magically cut/edited video of the BBC. Magically, because they cut a ~2 minute footage to almost 10 seconds, to parts showing only the close plane, because if you show it zoomed out, it becomes evident that the tankman was preventing the tanks from exiting the square.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk
And no, he did not die or anything - he just walked away with his bags full of food in the end - the food which he was carrying back to his comrades in the square, who were preventing the army from leaving.
- Salute to this guy, Xu Qinxian.
Funny how (possibly worse) anti-democratic massacres done by US allies (and much more recently) don't get continuous coverage US/Western/Business/Tech press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaa_massacre
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