I was on Tiananmen Square as the troops arrived and opened fire on the crowd that I was in.
I watched for hours, from whatever cover I could find, as the People’s Republic of China butchered the people.
Yet only the troops had guns, so what unfolded that night was not a battle but a slaughter.
A teenager in a family we were close to was bicycling to work on the morning of June 4, far from Tiananmen Square or any protesters, and soldiers shot him dead.
My wife and fellow Times correspondent, Sheryl WuDunn, and I worked very hard to get the death toll at hospitals and morgues across Beijing, using every connection we had.
Persons:
Molotov, Sheryl WuDunn, we’re
Organizations:
Times
Locations:
People’s Republic, China, Japan, Beijing