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Question: Why were the protesters in the Massacre of Tiananmen Square of 1989 shot at!?
I promise you, I am not one of those uneducated retards blindly bashing the Chinese government because the media throws (false,) biased claims of it being evil, completely communist, calculating and cold-hearted!. Almost all things I've read while researching have seemingly been highly biased, throwing all the fault on the government!. Whether or not that is true, I don't know!. That's why I'm asking you!. :] And I don't want answers from people of which I have described above!. ^-~Www@QuestionHome@Com
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One theory i've read about is that the entire country was being privatized and everything that may have been owned by the people were being purchased at rock bottom prices!. This was nothing different than what had happened in South America, Ukraine, Britain, Africa over the prior 2 decades!. The actual difference was that it was being bought by unscrupulous Chinese politicians/businessmen instead of Western businessmen!. This po'd the said Western politico's/business elite!. We in the west were informed that it was the students fight against communism but it was actually a fight against free market capatalism!. Anyways thats the short of it, and that theory is from the book "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein!. The Chinese elite are no better or worse than Western elite, they'll rip off their people just as easily as ours will rip off us!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
well,
1, police officers and unarmed soldiers were attacked, and i believe I saw a video clip of the students throwing cocktail bomb at a army truck!.
2!. as the army was going into inner beijing, citizens were doing some pretty violent stuffs to stop the army trucks!. (i!.e!. burning buses, throwing rocks!.!.!.)
3!. because the students weren't thinking, and did not know when to quit, the side of government officals (zhao ziyang) who supports demorcratic reform got beaten (not physically, politically) by the other side (li peng)!.
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I do not agree with the actions of the students back in 1989!. but I think the government officals were way too cruel!. If i was the chairman, I would probably send in the army with non-lethal weapons!. (i!.e!. rubber bullets)Www@QuestionHome@Com
Good grief! It's China!. There is no constitutional right to protest there!. Culturally, it's even unheard of to say "No, thanks" when you're asked "Would you like fries with that order!?" so a demonstration of that sort isn't something they're used to handling!.Www@QuestionHome@Com