Posted on 06/04/2019 8:29:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hongkongers gathered in record numbers, organisers said on Tuesday night, to mourn those who lost their lives in a bloody crackdown on democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China said well over 180,000 had attended the annual candlelight vigil, contrasting with last year’s 115,000. Police put the figure at 37,000 on Tuesday night and 17,000 in 2018.
Public opposition to the government’s controversial extradition bill was expected to boost the turnout on the 30th anniversary of the tragedy which left hundreds, possibly more than 1,000, dead.
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I’ve never seen such a huge story go down the memory hole, as this.
For a month, what was going on in Beijing gripped the world, now it barely gets a mention.
Up to today, the number of dead in that crackdown cannot be determined with accuracy. Some say as low as a few hundreds, other say it reached nearly 3,000.
Then we have this British report that claims 10,000 killed.
See here:
I’ve read reports that they ran tanks over the protesters, back and forth, back and forth until the bodies were pulp, then they washed the pulp down the storm drains.
Pretty hard to get a definitive body count on pulp.
RE: I’ve read reports that they ran tanks over the protesters, back and forth, back and forth until the bodies were pulp, then they washed the pulp down the storm drains.
Yeah, what’s a few thousands in a country of billions?
Oh...Google did NOTHING.
Okay.
I have books I bought in Hong Kong that summer with pictures smuggled out of the mainland that indicate this is in likely what happened.
![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/04/world/04-china-tankman-1/merlin_155738928_0cb96d5c-7fb5-47c4-acbb-ddc54bd35dc7-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale")
Did they identify the Tank Man? Is he dead or alive?
What I can’t believe is that we set it up with that same government within a few years to gift them more than a half century of technology knowing exactly how corrupt they were.
I think GHWB bares a lot of responsibility for this.
So do I. Bill Clinton does too.
His crew authorized the transfer of top secret ICBM tech, including gyros and MIRV technology.
TankMan was beaten to death shortly after Tiananmen.
Wow this is incredible thank you for sharing.
There’s never been any reliable info on his fate. I hope for him the best, but I suspect the worst.
I looked a bit more for TankMan info:
The record is actually very unclear about what happened to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
I was living in Japan at the time (’88-’91) and remember a lot of speculation in the press about him. It was kind of all over the place.
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