No Massacre in the Big Square

The story of the Tienanmen Massacre in 1989 is always included in the study of Asian history. It was an unexpected and morbid event in the night of June 3-4, wherein the Communist Party of China attempted to maintain its monopoly of power that resulted into a gruesome massacre. That is what our history teachers taught us about the said event. However, today's revisionists from the West contradict history by claiming that there were really no massacre in Tienanmen Square.

A research associate on China who is working for a New York based human rights organization called Asia Watch, Robin Munro claimed that there were really no massacre that took place in the big Square. He explained that it was not in Tienanmen where the massacres took place. Serious killing happened outside the city where most Journalists were present. Only a few were in square as the soldiers were surrounding the students, who were then considering a debate whether they should hold their line and die in the process or retreat. The students, according to Munro, had chosen retreat. Clearly, if the protesters indeed retreated, there was really no massacre in Tienanmen.

The absence of reliable witnesses of what really happened is the root of the wrongful facts that were reported and considered as the true account in Tienanmen. Amnesty International Asia Watch agreed that the killings did not happen in Tienanmen but some miles out from the square. Both institutions also added that the bodies shown in newspapers, magazines, and TVs were just workers and ordinary Beijing residents.