[mad_as_he$$]

200 dead? Easily believable. 2,700 dead? OK might buy that. But 10,000 dead would very hard to cover up for 30 years. Find that one hard to go with.

[MrEdd]

And yet numbers like that have been talked about for thirty years, so why is a public admission of what has been generally known hard to swallow?

[TigerLikesRooster]

It may not have been a news for those inside China who witnessed it firsthand. However, only the state can collect accurate statistics. Everybody knows one piece of event, not the whole puzzle. Outsiders can make reasonable estimate, but that is all. Only an insider with a direct access to documents can provide such an account. This is the first comprehensive documented account of the event which is made public. That is the news.

[jjotto]

The 10,000 dead figure agrees with the number in US intelligence assessments made public a few years ago.

It wasn’t just Tiananmen in Beijing, where 300,000 troops were used. The totals are from numerous places around China.

Chinese Communists openly idolize Stalin.