The UK embassy sent a contemporaneous cable home with first and second hand observations from the massacre that are among the most disturbing things that I have ever read. PLA APCs ran over civilians at 60kph (the driver later asked the crowd to kill him); schoolgirls were executed; elements of the PLA shot other elements of the PLA; a crewed ambulance was blown up with an RPG; dead bodies were literally hosed into the sewers.
Dry-Pen9050 on October 6th, 2021 at 17:07 UTC »
Not a very nice picture but I think this needs to be colourised.
5alzamt on October 6th, 2021 at 17:22 UTC »
Documents of the horrible truth Chinese government wants to keep secret.
Lilspainishflea on October 6th, 2021 at 18:04 UTC »
The UK embassy sent a contemporaneous cable home with first and second hand observations from the massacre that are among the most disturbing things that I have ever read. PLA APCs ran over civilians at 60kph (the driver later asked the crowd to kill him); schoolgirls were executed; elements of the PLA shot other elements of the PLA; a crewed ambulance was blown up with an RPG; dead bodies were literally hosed into the sewers.
Full text available here https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre