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TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE IS A MYTH, ALL WE'RE 'REMEMBERING' ARE BRITISH LIES

By Gregory Clark
Published 06/04/14 AT 6:00 AM BST
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June 5, 1989: An unknown protester who has become known as 'Tank Man' stands
passively as tanks roll along the Avenue of Eternal Peace during the crushing of
the Tiananmen Square uprising Reuters


June 4, 2014 will for many mark the 25<sup>th anniversary of the Tiananmen
Square massacre. What it should actually mark is the anniversary of one of the
more spectacular UK black information operations -- almost on a par with the
mythical Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

The original story of Chinese troops on the night of 3 and 4 June, 1989
machine-gunning hundreds of innocent student protesters in Beijing's iconic
Tiananmen Square has since been thoroughly discredited by the many witnesses
there at the time -- among them a Spanish TVE television crew, a Reuters
correspondent and protesters themselves, who say that nothing happened other
than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to
leave the Square late that night.



Yet none of this has stopped the massacre from being revived constantly, and
believed. All that has happened is that the location has been changed – from the
Square itself to the streets leading to the Square.

The original story began with a long article in English, published six days
later in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, by an alleged protester whose
whereabouts have never been ascertained. Anonymously planted stories are a
favourite technique of UK black information authorities, but this did not stop
it from being front-paged by the New York Times on June 12, together with photos
of blazing troop-carrying buses and followed up by Tankman – the photo of a lone
student allegedly trying to stop a row of army tanks from entering the Square.
The myth of an unprovoked massacre has since taken root.



True, no one denies that large numbers of citizens and students were killed near
the Square by soldiers seemingly out of control. But why?

Let's go back to those photos of the burning buses. The popular view is that
they were torched by angry protesters after the shooting began. In fact they
were torched before. The evidence? Reports of charred corpses being strung up
beneath overpasses (one photographed by Reuters remains unpublished), and photos
of badly burned soldiers seeking shelter in nearby houses. Soldiers in that kind
of situation tend to go out with guns blazing – just ask the good citizens of
Fallujah, Iraq.


Chinese Paramilitary security force officers walk past couples near Tiananmen
Square in Beijing ahead of the 25th anniversary of the massacre Getty


Fortunately we also have the hourly reports from the US Embassy in the Beijing,
available on the Internet, to tell us what actually happened. They note that
originally the Beijing authorities had wanted to send in unarmed troops to clear
the Square of remaining students as the protests were beginning to wind down.
Blocked by the crowds, armed troops were bused in and this time they were
blocked by crowds with petrol bombs, with ugly results. Even so, some units
tried to restrain the out-of-control solders. And an embassy report of students
killing a soldier trying to enter the Square could explain some of the carnage
on its periphery.

As for Tankman, we now know from the cameraman himself that his
widely-publicised photo was taken from his hotel window the day AFTER the riots,
and the tanks were going away from, not into, the Square.



A detailed report by the authoritative Columbia Journalist Review, 'The
Tiananmen Massacre Myth and the Price of a Passive Press' has since noted the
media preference for blood and gore stories. But none of this seems to have
dented the credibility of the Tiananmen massacre story.

True, some of the blame also lies with Beijing. Its campaigns to hunt down
student protest leaders and to blame everything on anti-regime plots have not
created a good impression. But it may have its reasons. Out of frustration as
their long protest began to dissipate, some of the student leaders had called
for action by the angry crowds still around the Square. And how did some in
those crowds have access to petrol bombs – a weapon not used by Chinese rioters
and allegedly responsible for over 400 vehicles being destroyed?



The regime had tolerated the protesters by allowing them to occupy its central
square for six weeks. Its party general secretary had tried in vain to negotiate
with them. And it later regretted how its lack of crowd control equipment meant
it had had to rely on untrained soldiers. But then again, none of this would
have happened if the regime itself had not been at fault in the past.

The words of well-known Taiwan-born writer Hou Dejian, who had been on the
hunger strike on the Square to show solidarity with the students, says it all:
"Some people said that 200 died in the Square and others claimed that as many as
2,000 died. There were also stories of tanks running over students who were
trying to leave. I have to say that I did not see any of that. I myself was in
the Square until 6:30 in the morning.



"I kept thinking -- are we going to use lies to attack an enemy who lies?"

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Gregory Clark is a former Australian diplomat, Chinese-speaking correspondent
and university president resident in Japan. He can be found at
www.gregoryclark.net. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily
represent those of IBTimes UK

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