Sculpture commemorating the June 4th massacre at Liberty Sculpture Park at Yermo California.
Chinese agents burned down this sculpture. It has since been rebuilt and made fireproof.
I am so glad that this would never happen here.
“I am so glad that this would never happen here.”
Sic semper tyrannus.
Sculpture commemorating the June 4th massacre at Liberty Sculpture Park at Yermo California.
Chinese agents burned down this sculpture. It has since been rebuilt and made fireproof.
Just read the comment section in any youtube video about the incident. The CCP propagandists and bots take on every comment. I watched one video tonight, and witnessed it.
most people don’t know there were more tanks outside the Square facing OUT, than there were inside
the Chins’s dint know if the Army would revolt and support the students, so they came prepared!
i left two weeks before it happened, but we got realtime updates from others still there throughout, strange days...
All the in-depth videos of that day have been scrubbed from YouTube.
What happened, as I recall, on the June 4th anniversary of that horrible, terrible day:
Paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping called in Mountain troops from the northwest of China who were isolated from the rest of Chinese society. Few if any could read, but all were intensely patriotic.
They were told in briefing sessions that terrorists were trying to take over Beijing. That idea made them very angry and they wanted to kill all terrorists.
When they arrived, they were told also that the local militias had been taken over by the terrorists and, despite their military appearance, wanted to overthrow Deng and the Party.
When they began the fires, all hospitals were closed, except to authorized personnel. The only aid available was from make shift aid stations set up by some doctors and nurses that lived nearby or who had been passing by at the time of the fires.
The Mountain troops were told to open fire on everyone they saw. Which they did. Using armor piercing rounds, they fired AK-47, and heavy machine guns mounted on APCs and tanks. They kept up the fires continuously for 48 hours.
Besides the students on the Square that were murdered, so were passers-by: people walking home from work, people in busses, people in cars, people on their balconies overlooking the Square, reporters, aid workers - doctors and nurses at their aid stations. So were all the local militiamen, their vehicles burned out and destroyed.
The brave and very foolish Tank Man fared no better. Plain clothes police chased after him and when they caught him, beat him to death.
When The Shooting Stopped
Tracked vehicles like tanks and APC were used to run over the bodies, reducing them to jelly; military bulldozers were used to heap the bodies into piles; the piles were set on fire; when the fires died out, fire hoses were used to flush the remain into the sewers.
The CCP officially estimated that 2,000 people died. Others said 10,000. Still others said 20,000 ...
There is no way to verify the numbers. As I said in another post, all the in-depth videos taken on that day have been scrubbed from You Tube. They only exist on the hard drives/CDs of those that downloaded them.
The world is poorer because of that erasure. No one can learn from the horror. No one can experience what it was like then - all that is left are words, a few short videos, some still images, and even more words.
