WOW- Tiananmen Square massacre What Bob thought he knew!
Recall this rather well. Bob Hawke hoodwinked we didn't know at all. A little cut and past sorry
"journalists and foreign governments scrambled to find out what had happened in Beijing, Mr Hawke gave a graphic description of details that had not be reported anywhere in the world.He described Chinese soldiers rushing into Tiananmen Square, firing their guns indiscriminately, running over civilians with tanks, squashing bodies into "pulp", and incinerating the remains with flamethrowers.
It brought the prime minister to tears at one point and the moment shaped the perception of the event for many Australians who heard his speech."The ABC's China, If You're Listening podcast can now reveal for the first time the source of those details, and that the information he was reading was false.
I was hoodwinked as well. The post is about a big shift in history I had no idea was a faked conspiracy until today. Not the politics which is current affair fodder.
RIP Robert James Lee Hawke- a first class Larrikin PM[biggrin]