Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents

It is strange that such a relatively recent event has so big uncertainty in the historical records.

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

Edit: Apologies for the bare quote - I've always found the concept of the "mutability of the past" a fascinating and particularly troubling aspect of Orwell's work.

Hardly strange given the deliberate effort to suppress the history of it.

I honestly wonder what will become of historical archive records of events that happened in the 2010's and beyond - where the reach of the internet facilitates for the massive diffusion and storage of recorded information while, at the same time, allowing for its dilution, manipulation, alteration.