June 4 marks the 29th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-Democracy protests that ended in bloodshed, and China has done its best to scrub the event from collective memory.
Ahead of Monday’s anniversary, China has gone to great lengths to censor discussion about the tragedy in 1989, when Chinese troops killed unarmed pro-democracy protesters in the center of Beijing. (The exact death toll is in dispute, but some estimate that more than 1,000 protesters were killed.) ...”
The Harrison Jacobs article is wrong - the official Western death toll is around 2,700 with estimates of 10,454 killed and 40,000 injured.
See article in the Hong Kong Free Press by Kris Cheng 21 December 2017, FR posted on 12/29/2017, 9:46:48 PM by TigerLikesRooster
A far more comprehensive article with many more images and documents.
You’ll have to search FR.
Also see - if you van find it
Tiananmen Massacre - Tank Man_ The 1989 Chinese Student Democracy Movement (320 kbps).mp3
Here was a broadcast that was on Radio Beijing, I heard it on my shortwave live as it happened....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2vy_QftKU
An hour later, Radio Beijing was announcing the Party Line. I’ll never forget it.