the Washington Post described how anti-government fighters had been organized into formations of 100-150 people. They were armed with Molotov cocktails and iron clubs, to meet the PLA who were still unarmed in the days prior to June 4.
What happened in China, what took the lives of government opponents and of soldiers on June 4, was not a massacre of peaceful students but a battle between PLA soldiers and armed detachments from the so-called pro-democracy movement.
Are we meant to dislike armed detachments of students fighting a military? Not like these weren't socialist protestors anyway.
Tiananmen: The Massacre that Wasn't
mofongo wrote
This is massacre denial and state apologism, please refrain from posting things like this in the future. This is a warning.