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

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362 points ComputerGuru | 1 comments | 23 Dec 17 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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hsrada ◴[23 Dec 17 13:39 UTC] No.15994101[source]▶
A day to Remember (10 Min) : https://vimeo.com/44078865

Liu Wei, a Chinese artist goes around the streets of Beijing on June 4th asking people ‘What Day is it today?’ hoping for an answer on the lines of ‘Today’s the 16th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre’ but what he gets instead is a lot of ‘I don’t know’'s from the people whose faces clearly say otherwise.

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aaefiikmnnnr ◴[23 Dec 17 14:03 UTC] No.15994186[source]▶
I asked my graduate school classmates who were from China and got similar result. Very few of them said they heard of the event after they got to the U.S. and Googled it, but couldn't believe what they read since none of it appears in their life before they left China.
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1. gok ◴[23 Dec 17 19:36 UTC] No.15995844[source]▶
That's a different reaction. In 2002, people still remembered what happened but were unable to say it out loud due to fear (hence the facial expressions).

In 2017, the people old enough to be grad students truly don't know about it because the Party has successfully erased it from public discord within the mainland.