Comments by "F Liu" (@F_Liu) on "Twitter Censors Anti-War Journo Over Tiananmen Square Tweet" video.
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It depends on who you spoke to, the students who were on the square and went to America are the ones who were sponsored by the US to stir up emotions among young students and most students were being fooled into with the democracy and freedom message and being used. The female student leader Chai Ling in an interview with the CNN openly said she wanted to push the students and eventually see bloodshed on the square, and she would leave China for America when things gets messy, other main student leaders claimed later they didn't see any massacre and they actually left the square peacefully after making a deal with the army, who were ordered not to shoot or had no bullet in their arms. These student leaders even said do we have to lie to achieve our goal? Your friend didn't tell you that many many unarmed army soldiers got murdered, burnt alive, hung and cut open by rioters when the protests turned violent, properties smashed, the streets were full of bricks, I was there, I saw the chaos, it was not anything any Western country could tolerate for a second. There were deaths, including students, I am not denying it, but they mostly occurred during the violent confrontations with the army sent in to keep peace as rioters were spreading rumours and lies that the soldiers were sent in to kill civilians where they were not even armed and given orders not to use them. I am Chinese from Beijing, if you can read Chinese, I can tell you there were way more people in numbers who were on the square a member of the protest telling a totally different story from yours. To be clear, Danny is absolutely right, it was a failed colour revolution incited by the US, tons of evidence of their involvement using university intellectuals to incite uprising, the students were used, not to say there weren't problems with the Chinese government at that time, but it was not about democracy freedom and all the other things that the US does not actually give a shit about, it was about overthrowing the Chinese government for the interests of the US. Something your country does over and over, stop defending for it. BTW it is Tian An Men Square, learn to spell it right to start with, act like you actually care, lol.
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