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Rebroadcast: 6/4: UK Cable on Tiananmen Square Massacre

The History of China

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Yong Shankon and Dung Shaping Were Very Close Friends

One thousand survivors were told they could escape via juni lu, but were then mown down by specially prepared machine gun positions. Armies from shandong, jangshi and shin jang had left bases without orders from bajing to destroy 20 seventh army. Bajing commander has refused to supply outside armies with food, water or barracks. Some members of the state council suggest that civil war is imminent. So far as six foreign students and 23 foreign journalists had been killed in the fighting. Minimum estimate of civilian dead, ten thousand.

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