Tiananmen eye witnesses

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Reporter from the BBC: "I was one of the foreign journalists who witnessed the events that night. [...] There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8057762.stm

Reporter from the New York Times: "It is now considered unlikely than anyone was actually killed in Tiananmen Square"

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/27/world/clinton-in-china-the-site-clinton-in-beijing-square-may-tread-on-the-ghosts.html

Reporter from the Washington Post: "As far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square."

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php

Reporter from CBS News: “Dawn was just breaking. […] We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel”.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/

(All the reporters quoted above were in Beijing on June 4, 1989.)

Leaked cable from Wikileaks saying that a Chilean diplomat and his wife were at the square and saw no massacre:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html

Video footage from a Spanish news crew of the clearing of Tiananmen Square, presented on Hong Kong’s Asia TV. (Press CC button for English subtitles):

https://youtu.be/JMtopY3pcZs?t=1m12

Hou Dejian, a Taiwanese national and one of the leaders of the Tiananmen protests, saying he was there all night and saw no one killed: https://youtu.be/VSR9zgY1QgU?t=36