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Many things remain unclear about just what happened and why in the first week of June 1989. Two things ate clear, however. First, a substantial number of Beijing shimin died in the course of a brutal assault by fully armed, heavily armored units of the PLA in central Beijing on the evening of 3–4 June and in subsequent mopping-up operations: Best available estimates place the total number of dead at between 600 and 1,200, including at least 39 students and “several dozen” soldiers, with an additional 6,000 to 10,000 civilians

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Many things remain unclear about just what happened and why in the first week of June 1989. Two things ate clear, however. First, a substantial number of Beijing shimin died in the course of a brutal assault by fully armed, heavily armored units of the PLA in central Beijing on the evening of 3–4 June and in subsequent mopping-up operations: Best available estimates place the total number of dead at between 600 and 1,200, including at least 39 students and “several dozen” soldiers, with an additional 6,000 to 10,000 civilians
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from 'the road to tiananmen' by richard baum in 'the politics of china' edited by roderick macfarquhar, the standard textbook for the political history of the prc

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