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by JumpCrisscross
750 days ago
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> China lacked riot police in 1989, the PAP didn’t really exist, and the normal police had no training for riot control, or even any guns Beijing had experience with riot control in Tibet [1]. One month prior to Tiananmen, they put down protests in Urumqi [2]. Agree that the police were unprepared. But the decision to violently suppress was made by the CCP’s top leadership. This wasn’t an accident. It was a deliberate massacre of protesting children. > China made lots of mistakes and fixed them in many ways Beijing switched from open to covert killing. Were China party to the ICC or ICJ, Xi would be open to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in Tibet and Xinjiang/East Turkestan [3]. The continued fear and repression in Hong Kong is noteworthy not because it’s unstable, but because it’s still visible. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_and_uprisings_in_Ti... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_unrest [3] https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/un-reports-... |
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