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Why are media deliberately mis-characterizing the events at Tiananmen Square?

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Why are media deliberately mis-characterizing the events at Tiananmen Square?

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After seven weeks of student occupation of Tiananmen Square the PLA had orders to clear the square of the student protesters who had refused several government orders to vacate. In the government’s view, China’s most important square had become a garbage dump that promoted anarchy and disease. The continous refusal of the students to leave the square threatened the government’s control. The reporting of the PLA clearing of the student protesters from Tiananmen Square is separate from the reporting of the army’s attack from entry into Beijing up to Tiananmen Square. The latter attack caused loss of life for those who battled the PLA in a city under martial law. A discussion of that attack requires other information than shown in this report and should consider the exigencies in combating martial law. The events are not unique to Beijing. U.S. government actions in suppressing riots of its African-American citizens in several U.S. cities also resulted in a huge loss of African American l

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