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There are hundreds of thousands of hyperlinks to books, news, articles, and videos that describing the Tiananmen Square “massacre” – despite the fact that, in 1998, Washington Post journalist Jay Mathews confessed in the Columbia Journalism Review that “no one died at Tiananmen Square” and that “it is hard to find a journalist who has not contributed to the misimpression”.
When we search the internet for ‘Tiananmen Square Massacre’, there are hundreds of thousands of hyperlinks to books, news, articles, and videos that describe the event as a “Massacre”; and even the reputable Encyclopaedia Britannica also cites the Western media as sources to describe the 1989 incident as a “Massacre”.
This is despite the fact that, in 1998, Washington Post journalist Jay Mathews confessed in the Columbia Journalism Review that “no one died at Tiananmen Square” and that “it is hard to find a journalist who has not contributed to the misimpression”.
In 2004, the Christian Science Monitor revealed that Human Rights Watch decided not to publish their 52-page eye-witness report that confirmed the Chinese side of the story. In 2009, BBC journalist James Miles admitted that he had “conveyed the wrong impression.” CBS journalist, Richard Roth also confessed in 2009…
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-27692340/i-witnessed-46-deaths-at-tiananmen-says-john-simpson
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Do you really believe this, Simon? I’m sure John Simpson is a lovely person but it would be great to see this verified by at least one other source – the BBC is notorious for going along with US propaganda and disinformation.
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Sure the BBC is shit. But what I believe that we massively underestimate the potential for humankind for violence and destruction
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do you really think the UK won’t kill innocent people – it will. america will. china definitely will. Saudi arabia does all the time.
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I guess we shouldn’t “trust” wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
Hahaha, did I use the word, trust? It us Wikipedia, after-all. gwahaha
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It doesn’t really matter what anyone posts on Wikipedia – the CIA employs a vast army of editors to change it to suit US propaganda interests.
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Hahaha, my point exactly. LoL
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28 years later, it emerges that US media promulgated lies and distortions about what happened in Tiananmen Square. Probably we will hear, sometime around the year 2045, that they have been doing the same about Turkey, Russia, Syria, Venezuela etc.
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Sad to think I’m very unlikely to be around by then, Alan. I could live to 98 but given my family history, I think it’s unlikely.
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you might as well just deny the holocaust too
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How so, George? I don’t see the connection.
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