BBC Report from 4 June 1989, as Military Fires on Crowds at Tiananmen Square
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BBC reporting from 4 June 1989, day of the massacre at Tiananman Square. A BBC reporter delivers her report from among the crowd, under constant gunfire. She reports: “the air was filled with shouts of ‘fascists! stop killing!’” / “they’re shouting ‘stop the killing!’ and ‘down with the government’” / “the young man in front of me fell dead; I fell over him” / “two ambulance drivers were shot and injured”.
The report also includes an account of the many injured rushed to hospital, including those picked up by journalists: “we picked up a woman with a bullet in the head and took her to the nearby children’s hospital, to a scene of near mayhem” / “people shot while sitting in their homes” / “in 20 minutes 40 seriously injured were brought for emergency surgery, 2 were already dead” / “There was not one voice on the streets that did not express despair and rage. ‘Tell the world’ they said to us.”
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