Evidence of a massacre having occurred in Beijing was incontrovertible.
Chinese army tanks guard the strategic Chang'an avenue leading to Tiananmen square (6 June 1989) Manuel Ceneta/AFP
Troops fired at unarmed citizens on the strategic Chang'an Boulevard
Numerous foreign journalists saw it from widely scattered vantage points.
On the morning of 4 June, reporters in the Beijing Hotel close to the square saw troops open fire indiscriminately at unarmed citizens on Chang'an Boulevard who were too far away from the soldiers to pose any real threat.
Thirty or 40 bodies lay, apparently lifeless, on the road afterwards.
But it is not uncommon to find Chinese who believe the Communist Party's fiction that there was a riot in Beijing on 3 June that warranted intervention. << 這就是你
Rioting did occur, but involving angry residents outraged by the army's brutal entry into the city.