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[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Hardly any historians believe there was a massacre on the square, especially not after the US cables were leaked and confirmed China's official reporting as accurate. Hundreds died that day in riots around Beijing, from PLA officers firebombed to rioters killed by the PLA, but the square itself was evacuated bloodlessly. It's also extremely chauvanist of you to claim western historians are "all historians around the world," erasing Chinese historians themselves.