Most of the hundreds of foreign journalists that night, including me, were in other parts of the city or were removed from the square so that they could not witness the final chapter of the student story.

Right, all the media was ushered out so that they couldn't see the peaceful ending. Seems legit. But OK, let's assume it's the case. Whatever.

Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances. [...] Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city

What are workers and passersby? Right, civilians.