The whole thing with the June 4th incident in general is a big mess of the game “telephone.” You say the killing happened off the square and people think you’re denying any killing happened at all because all they hear is “no killing happened on the square.”
This gets even worse when the question becomes “what happened on Tian’anmen Square?” Answering that it seems no killing happened on the square is technically supported by evidence, yet answering in such a way without bringing up the fights between rioters and the PLA on their way to the Square itself, where hundreds of people absolutely died and no one denies, leads to claims of “absolute denial” which isn’t a stance held by anyone.
The whole thing with the June 4th incident in general is a big mess of the game “telephone.” You say the killing happened off the square and people think you’re denying any killing happened at all because all they hear is “no killing happened on the square.”
This gets even worse when the question becomes “what happened on Tian’anmen Square?” Answering that it seems no killing happened on the square is technically supported by evidence, yet answering in such a way without bringing up the fights between rioters and the PLA on their way to the Square itself, where hundreds of people absolutely died and no one denies, leads to claims of “absolute denial” which isn’t a stance held by anyone.