Buddy, you don't get to say things like "despite the condescension" when you came in here suggesting that we should take a fantasy you made up in your head seriously as if that was a matter of historical record.

And it's not like you deserve it, but here's an essay from a Chinese scholar and a Canadian-Peruvian Marxist synthesizing together a few dozen first hand accounts and historical documents/articles about the event.

loaded language

bourgeois media is filled with loaded language but it doesn't register to you because of your chauvinism

And what was the reliable source where you got your current belief?

That was not the most decent answer, and you are a liar. Someone asked you why you believed he was killed, and you ignored it. Because you know the answer isn't a good one.

this piece in the Columbia Journalism Review by a western journalist who was there still has some of the liberal brainworms but solidly shows that the conventional narrative is bullshit:

The Myth of Tiananmen | Columbia Journalism Review

The problem is this: as far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square.

I look forward to hearing how a primary witness writing in CJR is unreliable

the piece links all of its sources