Inside China - June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre Part 1

In this special edition of Inside China we look at the June 4th, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. We talk to Chinese historian Xin Haonian who will take us inside this world-changing day.

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[Horatio117]

I find it ironic how the PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY crushed a peaceful protest by their own people who were calling for basic liberties

[Supenmanu]

"Better to sacrifice a few youthful hotheads than threaten the stability"

Communist logic at it's finest (-:

[david38823]

@RisingChina Hijacked by a dubious public? Is the craving of basic civil liberties dubious? No and no again. China is the biggest threat to human rights. Democracy is by no means perfect but this Communist/Capitalist hybrid is an entirely different animal.

[74gore]

fi the china turned democracy, china would have ended just like the once great soviet union

[axm53204]

man u should drop d**d for saying that, go live under a rock lamo, its not like u can really understand something.

[RisingChina]

where is my comment?

don't you see some restraint on the millitary part, even in this anti-china video? don't you see the crowd attacking the millitary? if you had been in the government, when hijacked by a dubious public, some innocent, some intent on making trouble, would you have allowed the threatening situation to go on out of your control? if the government had been replaced, would there have been a peaceful china? how much blood would have shed? but i agree the gov was wrong.

[LastWordsFirst]

They were fighting for freedom and against oppression. If you are truly oppressed, the ONLY way to do that is to get up and let your government know that you're not going to take it anymore.

This scenario being played out in the US today wouldn't make sense, because we have the right to speak freely, which is still illegal in China today.

These "hotheads" represented the populace. There was no worthy "sacrifice" made. Just a hard-nosed govt. unwilling to secure unalienable human rights.

[dokpabhu]

Killing of innocent student is good?????????

How can you make remarks like that...When u look into the mirror do you even see yourself as human or just rotten animal in a human form...

How ignorant??

[stoogemaster7000]

now THAT is a load of bullshit dude are u saying that democracy has never employed that tactic? u know why there arnt any democratic versions of tiananmen square? because its all censored think before u criticize

[bosh886]

well said my friend

[LemtemPoktui]

These hotheads were informed to retreat. Furthermore, killing these stupid hotheads is way better than uncle sam droping atom bombs on nagasaki and hiroshima which killed hundred thousands of innocent lives.

[365073]

you also no english