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Tiananmen Crackdown Casualty Estimate

The estimate of civilian deaths resulting from the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, 1989, with varying numbers reported by different sources.

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What do declassified diplomatic cables reveal about casualty estimates from the Tiananmen crackdown?

Declassified diplomatic cables include a high-profile British dispatch by that relayed an unnamed source’s “minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000” from the . Those cables sit alongside other declas...