“At the State Council press conference on 6 June, spokesman Yuan Mu said that “preliminary tallies” by the government showed that about 300 civilians and soldiers died, including 23 students from universities in Beijing, along with some people he described as “ruffians”.[229][238] Yuan also said some 5,000 soldiers and police were wounded, along with 2,000 civilians.”
300 dead and 7,000 wounded sure soundss like a massacre
You gotta read the whole thing. There wasn’t significant violence in the square, but there absolutely was elsewhere in the area. So they’re right to say there wasn’t a massacre in the square.
The soldiers don’t count towards the total unless you wanna claim it was a massacre of pap and pla members.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
“At the State Council press conference on 6 June, spokesman Yuan Mu said that “preliminary tallies” by the government showed that about 300 civilians and soldiers died, including 23 students from universities in Beijing, along with some people he described as “ruffians”.[229][238] Yuan also said some 5,000 soldiers and police were wounded, along with 2,000 civilians.”
300 dead and 7,000 wounded sure soundss like a massacre
You gotta read the whole thing. There wasn’t significant violence in the square, but there absolutely was elsewhere in the area. So they’re right to say there wasn’t a massacre in the square.
The soldiers don’t count towards the total unless you wanna claim it was a massacre of pap and pla members.
Understandable!