cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57660342
French Art historian Nathalie Trouveroy shared footage with Le Monde from her personal archives of the Tiananmen Square protests, shedding new light on how the Chinese regime violently repressed the student protests in June 1989.
The linked article contains a video (17 min). Here is an invidious link to this video with the comments being in French.
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The analysis of previously unseen images obtained by “Le Monde” and leading testimonies provide a better understanding of how the Chinese regime gradually shifted to the violent repression of the student demonstrations in the spring of 1989.
Spring 1989, Tiananmen Square. At the heart of the student demonstrations, a young expatriate, Nathalie Trouveroy, films the Beijing protesters, their slogans, their enthusiasm and their fear with her Hi8 video camera. These images, which remained in a family setting for a long time, are unpublished archives obtained by Le Monde.
Her husband, Guy Trouveroy, was then a political adviser at the Belgian Embassy in Beijing. For seven weeks, the couple were privileged witnesses to the regime’s hesitation, torn between dialogue, obstruction and repression of the demonstrators. When the movement turns in favour of democratic measures, the communist government sends tanks against the population. On the night of 3-4 June 1989, the massacre took place. The repression would spread throughout China.
Since then, the Chinese authorities have been trying to erase Tiananmen from the collective memory. But, thirty-eight years later, Nathalie Trouveroy’s never-before-seen video and photo archives have come to light. With these family images, the Trouveroy couple intend to preserve the memory of the victims of the bloody repression of the Tiananmen movement.
Lmao. No mention of the protestors lynching and burning cops and soldiers beforehand?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Ha?
That would be weird since China claims it simply didn’t happen. Kinda hard to claim self defense and “that didn’t happen” at the same time.
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Wow, that is some hateful racism right there from someone trying to occupy the moral high ground.
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Proudly what? Proudly racist? Or proudly attempting to be morally superior while being racist.
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Nonsense. Changing your beliefs is a natural part of tankie ideology. You can’t be cornered in an argument if you say something completely different every comment.
Wikipedia says they claim 241 people died
Well I mean literally there was no massacre in tiennimen square. There were clashes in the surrounding area.
Were the goalposts inside the square, or well actually I meant the goalposts near the square?
There’s a material difference between the story most lemmitors insist on, that all the peaceful protesters just wanted freedom, and communists hate freedom so they machine-gunned 20,000+ protesters in the square then ran them over with tanks until there was nothing left and “protesters lynched a bunch of soldiers, took their weapons, and battled cops in the streets. Hundreds of people died in the fighting, over a thousand wounded”.
Their propaganda makes it easier to swallow the “China bad” narrative they’ve been fed their entire lives.
Look it up and get back to me 👌
HAHAHAHAHAHHAA
haha?
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
American propaganda would make goebbels blush.
You would know that, wouldn’t you…
Uhh, yeah. It’s pretty easy to spot, as a non-American.
You’re telling me you trust the government that has lied about every military engagement it’s been in since WWII, who’s been run by an elite billionaire pedophile child sex trafficking ring?
What makes you assume I get my info from the american government? The facts about tiennimen square are pretty widely known outside of tankie-land, I don’t need the CIA whispering in my ear to tell you the PLA slaughtered civilian protesters.
You really seem to support the police though. Weird.
Lol.
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What kind of take is this? Fuck cops and fuck soldiers
Tankies like nonconfrontational have no interest in honesty.
Lol.
incredible. i hope you’re paid well
Wumaos are notoriously underpaid.
Is that like a racist insult or something?
Not a big fan of history, I see.
Your made up version of history or reality?
Tell me what you think happened in tiananmen square in 1989.
The Chinese government murdered people who disagreed with them.
Ah-ha, gotcha! Most of the violence did not occur inside the square itself, but outside it, on the streets nearby!
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I don’t know if you think you’re supporting china, but you’re hurting the Chinese people.
This isn’t a “china bad” thing. I want Chinese people to be able to speak their mind without worry of being murdered, silenced, or jailed.
I like china in general. Let’s try to be better people and not oppress them or come up with alternate realities to not to hurt the feelings of billionaires in charge.
Since when do you support the cops?
Gotta lick the boot eh red fash.
Explain what you think red fascism is.
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Wanna try again? Or was it more pointless hahas?
Based if true