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Source to running over people with tanks?

by ummonk 7y ago

kortilla 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
mhh__ 7y ago
Tiananmen, And there is photographic evidence
- vinceguidry 7y ago
  There were no pictures that actually captured people being run over with tanks. The man in the famous photo was the only incident caught on film, he was not run over that day but his whereabouts are unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
  - low_poly_shiba 7y ago
    An interesting fact I learned the other day is that the man in that picture is from after the protests, when the tanks were leaving the square, not when they were entering it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aad3e1a7e3c3aab4ab40b11/5b1fde6e0e2e7204c77b9f4b/5b1fdf956d2a7373bd71f17a/1528815549894/004_LON16896.jpg?format=500w https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aad3e1a7e3c3aab4ab40...
  - mhh__ 7y ago
    It may not have been a tank but I have a photo of someone who was clearly crushed by something that definitely wasn't a students bicycle let's say
- Fjolsvith 7y ago
  Not available in China, though...
emptybits 7y ago
The British ambassador to China at the time, Sir Alan Donald, claimed that citizens were mowed down repeatedly by Chinese army tanks, turned to mush, and their remains were scooped, burned, and washed away.[1] There also exist individuals who claim to have narrowly survived the tanks in Tiananmen Square but had limbs crushed and amputated. They have been pressured by the Chinese government to change their story.[2] [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tiananmen-square-massacre-death-toll-secret-cable-british-ambassador-1989-alan-donald-a8126461.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tiananmen-squa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng
- ummonk 7y ago
  Even the people claiming Iraq had WMDs provided better evidence than that.

Source to running over people with tanks?

by ummonk 7y ago

Source to running over people with tanks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

mhh__ 7y ago

Tiananmen, And there is photographic evidence

vinceguidry 7y ago
There were no pictures that actually captured people being run over with tanks. The man in the famous photo was the only incident caught on film, he was not run over that day but his whereabouts are unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
- low_poly_shiba 7y ago
  An interesting fact I learned the other day is that the man in that picture is from after the protests, when the tanks were leaving the square, not when they were entering it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aad3e1a7e3c3aab4ab40b11/5b1fde6e0e2e7204c77b9f4b/5b1fdf956d2a7373bd71f17a/1528815549894/004_LON16896.jpg?format=500w https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aad3e1a7e3c3aab4ab40...
- mhh__ 7y ago
  It may not have been a tank but I have a photo of someone who was clearly crushed by something that definitely wasn't a students bicycle let's say
Fjolsvith 7y ago
Not available in China, though...

emptybits 7y ago

The British ambassador to China at the time, Sir Alan Donald, claimed that citizens were mowed down repeatedly by Chinese army tanks, turned to mush, and their remains were scooped, burned, and washed away.[1] There also exist individuals who claim to have narrowly survived the tanks in Tiananmen Square but had limbs crushed and amputated. They have been pressured by the Chinese government to change their story.[2] [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tiananmen-square-massacre-death-toll-secret-cable-british-ambassador-1989-alan-donald-a8126461.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tiananmen-squa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng

ummonk 7y ago
Even the people claiming Iraq had WMDs provided better evidence than that.