My father was one of those students(they call them survivors) at that square in 1989, with Henan University.
So I can clarify something happened in that night and later decades.
Base on his words, there's NO MASSACRE.
He's a totally discontent about CCP, but as he said, there was no massacre.
But was there blood? yes.
"CCP is too treacherous," he said, "CCP deliberately indulged the marchers, so once they go too far, once they became violent, and CCP obtained enough excuses to consider this is a rebellion and began suppressing them"
"Violent" he pointed here is that some marchers tortured and killed soldiers(armed police).
Maybe someone has seen those pictures, a burned body be hanged at a bridge, and more similar violent happened before repression.
And my father thinks students were deluded, by the US(without evidence).
So the timeline is: students parade -> violent -> CCP repression.
And again, no massacre.
In that time, CCP had tried to debate that event with west media, but they failed, badly, so after that, in decades they just simply censored all information and chose to avoid any fight about that in public media.
The GFW in China mostly because of this.
-> about the "massacre", there is a video from the students' leader Hou Dejian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSR9zgY1QgU
I like his word "Are we going to use lies to attack an enemy who lies?"
This is bad for these dissidents and bad for Twitter. For Twitter it’s bad in two very bad ways. One it’s denying the right to free speech to Americans as well as foreign nationals legally residing in the US. Two, they are either utterly unprepared for the next election cycle, or their algorithmic bias was exposed incidentally.
"Violent" he pointed here is that some marchers tortured and killed soldiers(armed police). Maybe someone has seen those pictures, a burned body be hanged at a bridge, and more similar violent happened before repression. And my father thinks students were deluded, by the US(without evidence). So the timeline is: students parade -> violent -> CCP repression. And again, no massacre.
In that time, CCP had tried to debate that event with west media, but they failed, badly, so after that, in decades they just simply censored all information and chose to avoid any fight about that in public media.
The GFW in China mostly because of this.
-> about the "massacre", there is a video from the students' leader Hou Dejian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSR9zgY1QgU I like his word "Are we going to use lies to attack an enemy who lies?"