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Originally Posted by chaochao
That is rather distortion and aggrandizement, i have said that one of my uncle's friend was ever police in that affair, they arrested many people, killing actually exited, but just a few! 200-3000! Woo, good, just as recently west press said that there were more than 140 alleged "peaceful protestors" was killed in Tibet! Distortion is always the thing west press are good at!
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Well even according to the PRC sources at least 200-300 people died. The New York Times wrote about 400-800 victims, the Chinese Red Cross claims about 2000-3000 victims.
The western press is well within the extreme estimations on both sides. But thats not my point anyway, even if it was 200 dead people, its a clear enough difference to the protests in Germany on 1st May where exactly 0 people died. Clear enough to say that setting it a same like you did with what happened at the Tiananmen Square is ridiculous.
Putting the demonstrators at the Tiananmen square with the burning down rioters in Tibet onto one level is also rather interesting. The last time I looked at it, hunger strike was not an act of violence. The demonstrations and its demands found even high ranked supporters within the state, but those who wanted to send the army in to "clear up" rather than those who wanted to commit the demanded reforms won in the end, and thats what they did then.
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If there weren't so many west lies and distortion, of course I wouldn't come here!
I think the most useful thing i can learn here from westerners is to criticize our gov ( in fact people do that almost everyday here just as westerners do), I am lucky and happy to see that our gov are giving more and more political freedom to people and listen to people's voice more than before, i think things will go better in future!
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So you come here to see "lies and distortions"?