Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989?
Tiananmen is an extraordinary achievement of forgetting.<p>There we a huge number of people involved on both the PLA and protestor sides. There are some reports which claim thousands of people killed and gruesomely disposed of; those people must have had relatives. We (outsiders and history in general) have very little idea what happened, and a single photo which escaped the censorship.<p>If the gunpoint forgetting is maintained for the lifetimes of the surviving participants, we may never know what happened.<p>Of course, even in incidents which are hugely documented, there is scope for denialists and propagandists to sneak in misinformation.<p>Edit: well, looks like there's lots more. I've been misled myself by how prevalent the Tank Man photo is compared to all the other footage!