China's censorship is far reaching. Searching for "tank man" on some image search engines brings up zero results.

Thanks for sharing this archive. It's definitely in a better shape than the archive.org one. I truly believe getting to the primary source will absolutely avoid dogmatism and unsolvable polarizing holy wars that's the current trend in the world.

I'm Chinese, I've known about Tiananmen or 6/4 Incident in Chinese since as far as I remembered things. Not through official channels but it's pervasively talked about casually in personal circles. Perhaps one context that's helpful is that West adoration is absolutely pervasive and the norm among the average Chinese people, from the Sino-Soviet split all the way up until perhaps the last 5 years following a consecutive series of US stumbles. This is true all around from lifestyle envy to the materialism to American values. American cultural exports are undeniably more successful and meanwhile, on the ground level, I've yet to know of anyone of my age, living in cities, in China, that takes anything from the Chinese media seriously. I've always believed that Americans are inherently nobler morally and that there had truly been a massacre. I believed it while in China and I believed it after moving to Canada.

But as I absorb more primary source data over the years, the more I see, the less certain I am of what it is. From student leader interviews to raw photos to foreign journalists' primary accounts, I'm very curious to gather as much primary source as possible to separate out the editorial from western media which looks faker and faker as I learn more and more over the years, from the suppression of OPCW whistleblowers on the Syrian "chemical attack" to Gaddafi's "viagra fueled rape frenzies" to the Nayirah testimony to the whitewashing of Áñez's indigenous cleanses to the circular referencing of NED affiliate sources on Xinjiang while being the undisputed number 1 overthrower of democracies around the world from Mossadegh in Iran to Allende in Chile to Arbenz in Guatemala to Sukarno in Indonesia. Even within months of Tiananmen, thousands were massacred in the Caracazo uprising against the Washington consensus pushed on Venezuela while the US is also busy bombing the shit out of Panama city while sealing journalist access to the city for days after the bombing. Yet it's impossible to find one person who know these events. They are in the memory hole as you put it while Tiananmen is permanently burned into every growing person's consciousness throw annual semi-religious media ceremonies.

I'd be the first to agree that the Chinese authorities are capable of senseless thuggish behavior. I also strongly believe the initial undercurrents are absolutely organic, from economic mismanagement and inflations of 1989 to the rising level of corruption riding the wave of privatization to the unequal distribution of wealth in the distribution of state assets similar to the Yeltsin IMF restructuring in Russia. The student protests were also the externally visible symptoms of deeper factional clashes behind the scenes within the party wrt to the future direction of China. That said, from primary sources, I still struggle to know what exactly happened on 6/4. As you're showing as well, there's a large amount of violence towards the military as well from burning and mutilation of soldiers to seizing of armored vehicles and weapons. This is visible from other sources as well like https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda (ignore the editorial, just look at the pictures). This seems consistent with the presence of Gene Sharp (the father of color revolutions) in Beijing that day and similar surgically organized color revolutions in HK and Euromaidans in the Ukrainian overthrow where the modus operandi is to unleash the maximum amount of brutality towards the police and hope for a proportional response. The student leader Chai Ling also said that quiet part out loud herself (that she's hoping for a bloodshed (of her fellow students while she's going to take the US offer of being ferried to the US before the night of the incident)). I'm highly pre-disposed to believing that it's a simple case of good vs evil (see China's treatment of victims' lawyers in the post-2008 earthquake revelation that most of the deaths were due to shoddy construction standards, in which case it is a simple case of good vs evil). But without editorial colors, it's hard to assess from primary sources. Of course China doesn't help by making rudimentary censorship its first go-to tool for everything.

CCP is actively committing and denying atrocities against the Uyghurs

Same here. I would absolutely not be surprised, but as a highly interested party, I struggle to find a real primary source that doesn't ultimately terminate in the US government such as through WUC, CHRD, RFA, or comical sources such as Adrien Zenz and ASPI.

Speaking of overthrows on false premises like the Powell shaking white powders in a vial in his UN speech, here's Powell's chief of staff himself on Xinjiang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1okOk5OR4.

I mean, if you look at Bing, the man will be on most of the images after about 5 images down.