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2024-02-21 01:25:44 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 478E76455C86652CE9C7758EF5D826585AF4224617A15AEC375CEF9452100F0A
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CN is OUTDATED in saying 10,000 died. Alan Donald made that 10,000 claim in the morning after the crackdown. Donald later REVISED the death toll to be between 2700 and 3400 however that is still Much Higher than the figure agreed by scholarly consensus. Sources https://thechinaproject.com/2017/12/25/no-10000-not-killed-in-tiananmen-crackdown/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Death_toll https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2017/12/chilling-new-details-1989-tiananmen-square-massacre-emerge-estimate-at-least-10-000-killed.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190607080938/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/06/commentary/world-commentary/tiananmen-narrative-true/#.XPob5nbgpkx
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