French Art historian Nathalie Trouveroy shared footage with Le Monde from her personal archives of the Tiananmen Square protests, shedding new light on how the Chinese regime violently repressed the student protests in June 1989.
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The analysis of previously unseen images obtained by "Le Monde" and leading testimonies provide a better understanding of how the Chinese regime gradually shifted to the violent repression of the student demonstrations in the spring of 1989.
Spring 1989, Tiananmen Square. At the heart of the student demonstrations, a young expatriate, Nathalie Trouveroy, films the Beijing protesters, their slogans, their enthusiasm and their fear with her Hi8 video camera. These images, which remained in a family setting for a long time, are unpublished archives obtained by Le Monde.
Her husband, Guy Trouveroy, was then a political adviser at the Belgian Embassy in Beijing. For seven weeks, the couple were privileged witnesses to the regime's hesitation, torn between dialogue, obstruction and repression of the demonstrators. When the movement turns in favour of democratic measures, the communist government sends tanks against the population. On the night of 3-4 June 1989, the massacre took place. The repression would spread throughout China.
Since then, the Chinese authorities have been trying to erase Tiananmen from the collective memory. But, thirty-eight years later, Nathalie Trouveroy's never-before-seen video and photo archives have come to light. With these family images, the Trouveroy couple intend to preserve the memory of the victims of the bloody repression of the Tiananmen movement.
Lmao. No mention of the protestors lynching and burning cops and soldiers beforehand?
That would be weird since China claims it simply didn't happen. Kinda hard to claim self defense and "that didn't happen" at the same time.
Nonsense. Changing your beliefs is a natural part of tankie ideology. You can't be cornered in an argument if you say something completely different every comment.
Wikipedia says they claim 241 people died
This goes to show how little you western fucks know about the government you hate so obsessively.
China does not deny that people have died during that day. But westerners have made such a big deal out of it when your OWN crimes are far and away worse.
Your masters are just scared of a non capitalist state showing how full of shit they are.
You eat your masters' shit with a grin and think that you're some brave freedom fighters for it.
China is better than you. China is more moral than you. More than France, and more than the fell abomination that is the US.
Fuck you, every one of you.
Wow, that is some hateful racism right there from someone trying to occupy the moral high ground.
I wish that were true cause they definitely deserved it.
Look it up and let me know what you find.
What kind of take is this? Fuck cops and fuck soldiers
Tankies like nonconfrontational have no interest in honesty.
incredible. i hope you’re paid well
Wumaos are notoriously underpaid.
Is that like a racist insult or something?
Is “wumao” a race now?
I don't know wtf a wumao is, so maybe? You tell me?
You should try Wikipedia.
Does seem kind of racist. Someone who defends China is automatically a paid Chinese agent?
I live within the imperial core and can read and see how much better China is than the bloodthirsty American empire.
Again, “wumao” is not a racist term. The whitest guy could be a wumao, there’s no racial component to it.
If you don't understand how that could seem racist, I don't know what to tell ya, lol.
Of course you don’t, because it’s nonsense.
You honestly can't think of a reason why that would be considered racist? You fuckin stupid, bro?
You don’t sound too non confrontational now.
When do I ever?
Your nickname suggests otherwise.
Bottom line, trying to argue that “wumao” is a racist slur is hilariously dumb. It’s a derogatory term coined by Chinese people that refers to CCP apologists, regardless of race.
So please, clarify: do you think it’s “racist” because I’m using a mandarin term, whatever that means, or, ironically enough, because you assumed that every CCP apologist must be of Han descend?
I never said it was racist, just that it seems like it could be interpreted that way.
Right. Since we are making shit up, it could also be interpreted as art.
If you don't understand the definition of art, yeah sure!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Ha?
Gotta lick the boot eh red fash.
Based if true