I’m aware that the protests had wildly different requests, from hardliners opposing Reform and Opening Up to the “Pro-Democracy” student-led movement. The student-led movement had CIA connections at the leadership level, and by the time of June 4th the “Pro-Democracy” movement was all that was really left.
There wasn’t an “unarmed column of PLA soldiers,” you’re confusing the events of June 3rd with June 2nd. June 3rd saw clashes between rioters, who had taken PLA arms and were fighting, while reports are admittedly mixed on whether or not rioters murdered the PLA officers on the morning of the 3rd alone, or in addition to June 2nd. Either way, the rioters did jump unarmed soldiers who were not deployed as a part of the main force moving in, even wikipedia backs this up.
The CPC narrative has not been credibly countered. Eyewitness accounts do not point to hundreds of extra deaths in concrete terms, they just point towards that being a possibility. As for you walking a point back, I mean when you went in and saw the twitter account saying that the lynched PLA officer had murdered 4 people, which the twitter account stated came from the ones lynching him. I pointed that bit out and then you seemed to have walked it back.
I’m aware that the protests had wildly different requests, from hardliners opposing Reform and Opening Up to the “Pro-Democracy” student-led movement. The student-led movement had CIA connections at the leadership level, and by the time of June 4th the “Pro-Democracy” movement was all that was really left.
There wasn’t an “unarmed column of PLA soldiers,” you’re confusing the events of June 3rd with June 2nd. June 3rd saw clashes between rioters, who had taken PLA arms and were fighting, while reports are admittedly mixed on whether or not rioters murdered the PLA officers on the morning of the 3rd alone, or in addition to June 2nd. Either way, the rioters did jump unarmed soldiers who were not deployed as a part of the main force moving in, even wikipedia backs this up.
The CPC narrative has not been credibly countered. Eyewitness accounts do not point to hundreds of extra deaths in concrete terms, they just point towards that being a possibility. As for you walking a point back, I mean when you went in and saw the twitter account saying that the lynched PLA officer had murdered 4 people, which the twitter account stated came from the ones lynching him. I pointed that bit out and then you seemed to have walked it back.