[grey_whiskers]

And that’s why the PLA was called out at the start - your putative 100 buses would make it just to the city limits before being torn apart with armor piercing rounds from heavy weapons and, as in ‘89, the bodies would be turned to mush, the mush burned and, the ashes washed into the sewer.

Not exactly true: I'll bet they still bill the families for the bullets.

[PIF]

Not exactly true: I’ll bet they still bill the families for the bullets.

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Yeah I left out the part where they ran over the bodies with tracked vehicles and use bulldozes to pile up the bodies before burning them.

They had no idea who to bill for bullets, since the official figure was in the area of 2000 - these were the people in the apartments, passers by, reporters, etc. Of the protestors on the square and other hapless individuals there was no trace after the ‘clean up’.

And how do you count the bullets? The mountain troops used both ‘assault rifles’ and heavy machine guns firing armor piercing rounds for 48 hours continuously.