est probably means that while we &quot;know&quot; that people were killed on Tiananmen Square, they were actually killed in the streets around the square, not on the square itself.<p>(Other sources say that there were indeed deaths on the square, but less than five or so, not the main massacre)<p>But it doesn&#x27;t really matter where exactly the deaths happened.<p>Only insofar as it reminds us of the fallibility of the human mind (cf. witnesses in court): many people actually believe they have seen in TV how people were slaughtered on the square, which is demonstrably incorrect.