Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations
Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history.
General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades.
The six-hour video recording of Gen Xu’s court martial hearing the next year sheds light on the rare act of defiance. In the video, Xu said he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history”.
He wasn’t killed, he was court marshalled and released five years later. He died in '21 at the ripe old age of 85
But the protesters were.
Protestors burned alive in their APC by the nefarious CCP Street Clothes division
Lmfao it doesn’t get more tankie than mourning the loss of a fucking tank.
Now let’s all laugh about the pictures of actual crushed, shot and mutilated humans [NSFL]. Are these people plain clothes PLA killed by uh… students false flagging as tank drivers?
Seems like I touched a nerve
Nice deflection!
But I do agree, seems like you hit your own nerve reading these comments. Having trouble stomaching the fact that blind support for “AES” means cheering for the jack boots running over hunger striking students? Keep digging up conspiracies and excuses, you’ll beat that cognitive dissonance eventually.