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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by onetimemanytime on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:32AM (#20095956)
What did they do to the bodies? But then, since the Party is/was in power the burial sites would be off limits and cleaned many times over.

I wonder what would have happened to China at that time had the Government fallen? Civil war, many smaller states...? They have no history of democracy

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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by mieseratte on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:42AM (#20096053)
They detail it in the linked cable, but it involves incinerating mutilated remains.
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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by onetimemanytime on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:48PM (#20096786)
>>APCS THEN RAN OVER BODIES TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO MAKE QUOTE PIE UNQUOTE AND REMAINS COLLECTED BY BULLDOZER. REMAINS INCINERATED AND THEN HOSED DOWN DRAINS.

Considering the task at hand, pretty smart. Just burn them so not much remains. Weeks, months and years later, no evidence at all.

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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by amorphic on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:10AM (#20101406)
In an ABC (Australia) news story this week a journalist who was involved back in 1989 recounted that families were only allowed to collect the bodies of victims from hospitals and morgues if they agreed to sign a document confirming that the victim had died under "accidental circumstances".

This was one means by which the official bodycount was understated.

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Re:Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? by lobotryas on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:49AM (#20096118)
Read the cable. They (allegedly), pulverized the bodies into a “pie” by repeatedly running them over with APCs, then washed them down drains and disinfected.
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